Taking as its point of departure the research interests of Esa Itkonen, this volume draws together perspectives from linguistics, the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and the history of linguistics to encourage critical reflection and further understanding on the nature of and connections between these disciplines.
Taking as its point of departure the research interests of Esa Itkonen, this volume draws together perspectives from linguistics, the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and the history of linguistics to encourage critical reflection and further understanding of the nature of and connections between these disciplines.
The first part of the volume addresses the nature of language from different perspectives, examining some of its fundamental features and its connections to other phenomena. The second part engages in the question of how language should be studied by focusing on different methodological issues across a range of examples. The third part showcases the importance of looking back on the history and development of linguistics, while the typological and empirical studies in the fourth part demonstrate how linguistic methodology works in practice. A separate introductory chapter discusses interconnections between the three fields of research covered by the volume.
These sixteen contributions, featuring work from both eminent and emerging researchers, come together to illustrate the diversity and the unity of linguistics and to connect linguistics with its meta-research, making the volume relevant to all researchers within the various subdisciplines of linguistics.
1. Unity in diversity and the nature of linguistics, Aleksi Mäkilähde &
Tommi Alho, Part I: Understanding language as an object of research,
2.
Language and ontology T. Givón,
3. Analogy as the core of language Philippe
Monneret,
4. From the linguistic sign to cultural models Adam Gaz,
5.
Meaning and use: Remarks on Esa Itkonens theory of meaning Klaas Willems,
Part II: Methodological questions in the subdisciplines of linguistics,
6. A
nonpsychological realist conception of linguistic rules take 2 Michael B.
Kac,
7. Rationality and Conversation Analysis Tapani Möttönen,
8. Thought
experimentational pragmatics and imagination as a normative concept András
Kertész,
9. Analogy and analogical change Mikhail Voronov, Part III:
Perspectives from the history of linguistics,
10. Foundations for a
hermeneutic philosophy of the human sciences: Coserius and Itkonens
metatheoretical approaches to linguistics Araceli López Serena,
11. The human
mind and the theory of language: Discussion of the relationship between
language and the human mind in 20th-century linguistics Urpo Nikanne,
12. The
historical roots of the apparent time method Mikko Laasanen,
13. Analogy in
the French lexicographic tradition (17th19th centuries): Concept,
definition, discursive background Carita Klippi, Part IV: Typological and
empirical perspectives,
14. Zero-marking of evidentiality Seppo Kittilä,
15.
Degrammaticalization drift in North Saami Jussi Ylikoski,
16. Processing
transitivity in reading Finnish: The role of the lexicon and the primacy
problem Seppo Vainio, Anneli Pajunen, Jukka Hyönä & Raymond Bertram, Index
Aleksi Mäkilähde is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Tommi Alho is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland.
Anneli Pajunen is a Professor at Tampere University, Finland.
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