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Linguistics investigates the systems underlying language, speech, and language use. Linguists seek to develop an understanding of the rules and laws that govern the structure and use of particular languages and the manner in which these interact with internal systems and processes (interpretation, speech perception, and production) and with the outside world (acquisition, use, change and role in society). The articles in this volume present a valuable addition to answering three important questions about knowledge in linguistics: What is knowledge in linguistics, how is it acquired, and how is it put to use? Apart from the data on the specific phenomena addressed in the articles, the book presents insight into the palette of present-day linguistics. In this way, it aims to break open the division of linguistics into subfields thereby making possible cross-fertilisation.
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The Linguistics Enterprise Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) provides a platform for original monograph studies into synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Studies in LA confront empirical and theoretical problems as these are currently discussed in syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and systematic pragmatics with the aim to establish robust empirical generalizations within a universalistic perspective. General Editors Werner Abraham University of Vienna / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University Advisory Editorial Board Josef Bayer Christer Platzack Cedric Boeckx Ian Roberts Guglielmo Cinque Lisa deMena Travis Liliane Haegeman Sten Vikner Hubert Haider C. Jan-Wouter Zwart University of Konstanz ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona University of Venice University of Ghent University of Salzburg University of Lund Cambridge University McGill University University of Aarhus University of Groningen Terje Lohndal University of Maryland Volume 150 The Linguistics Enterprise. From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics Edited by Martin Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen and Arjen Zondervan The Linguistics Enterprise From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics Edited by Martin Everaert1 Tom Lentz1 Hannah De Mulder1 Øystein Nilsen2 Arjen Zondervan1 1Utrecht University / 2Queen Mary, University of London John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The linguistics enterprise : from knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics / edited by Martin Everaert ... [et al.]. p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 150) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Cognitive grammar. 2. Semantics. 3. Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax. I. Everaert, Martin. P165.L54 2010 415--dc22 2009043585 isbn 978 90 272 5533 4 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 8866 0 (Eb) © 2010 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents List of contributors The linguistics enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics Martin Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah De Mulder, Ø