Keynotes from the International Conference on Explanation and Prediction in Linguistics (CEP): Formalist and Functionalist Approaches: Heidelberg, February 13th and 14th, 2019

by Peter Kosta (Editor), Katrin Schlund (Editor)

Overview

The book offers five studies tackling the issue(s) of explanation and prediction in linguistics from different perspectives. The studies were conducted by internationally renowned experts in generative linguistics, biolinguistics, language philosophy, and functional linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631856628
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/30/2021
Series:	Potsdam Linguistic Investigations , #33
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Kosta is chair of Slavic Linguistics at the Department for Slavic Studies of the University of Potsdam (Germany). He works on biolinguistics, universals, typology, generative syntax, formal semantics, conversation analysis, and language policy. He is editor of HSK Slavic Languages and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Slawistik/Journal of Slavic Studies as well as the author of ten books and more than three hundred articles.

Katrin Schlund is an associate professor of Slavic linguistics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Her research foci include impersonal constructions, form-meaning-relationship in language, politeness in language, political poetry, and biscriptality.

Table of Contents

Željko Bošković: Generalized Asymmetry – Anna Maria Di Sciullo: Maximize Asymmetry, Minimize Externalization and Interface Asymmetries – Egbert Fortuin: Explanation in Syntax: Generative Syntax from a Functional Perspective and the Incommensurability of Syntactic Theories – Peter Kosta: The Unified Voice Phase Hypothesis and the Nature of Parametrized Functional Heads in a Phase-Label-Driven Model of Radical Minimalism with Special Reference to Slavic Languages – Nirmalangshu Mukherji: On Sound-Meaning Correlation