Buch, Englisch, Band 07, 200 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, Band 07, 200 Seiten
Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
ISBN: 978-3-89586-540-4
Verlag: LINCOM
That is why the present volume was prepared in cooperation with a philosopher and a participant from the Max Planck Institute for Sociolinguistics. In spite of the fact that language data and situations dealt with by these papers involve different language types, families and areas deserving different cultures in several regions of two continents, the original versions of certain papers were subject to discussions, and a sort of coordination and homogenisation was attempted. As several authors of the present team are also members of the Groupement de Recherche Européen No 1172 of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) "Diffusion Lexicale" (Caron, Cyffer, Jungraithmayr, Nicolaï, Zima), the main focus of most papers was on languages of the Sahel-Sahara region of Africa. However, contrasting with data from languages of other regions both in Africa (Bantu) and in Europe (Indo-European in general, and Romance or Baltic languages in particular) proved very useful and offered opportunities for attempting more universal conclusions.
Papers presented by Eleonore Adwiraah, Thomas Bearth, Siegmund Brauner, Cecile Canut, Bernard Caron, Norbert Cyffer, Nella Vladimirovna Gromova, Tomáš Hoskovec, Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Robert Nicolaï, Eric Pederson, Zdenek Pinc, Jan Šabršula, Petr Zima.