1st Edition
The Diversity and the Unity of Linguistics Studies in Honour of Esa Itkonen
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
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 Głaz
5. Meaning and use: Remarks on Esa Itkonen’s 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: Coseriu’s and Itkonen’s 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 (17th–19th 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
Biography
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.
