Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to rectify this situation somewhat by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of Linguistic Science (Očerk Nauki O Jazyke...

Although it prefigures many advances in linguistic theory, the scholarship of nineteenth century scholar Mikołaj Kruszewski is today largely forgotten. In these papers I hope to partially rectify this situation by introducing Kruszewski’s insights to modern discourse on phonology. In addition to a detailed summary of Kruszewski’s major work, An Outline of the Science of Language (Očerk Nauki O ...

A potentially fruitful area for applied linguistic research is the nature of the linguistic systems used by second language learners as they learn--or even after they appear to have stopped learning. It has been suggested at various times that the findings of this sort of research would be useful not only to language teachers and textbook writers, but also to our understanding of language conta...

This article examines the meronymy of words expressing grass carp and mussel body parts in Vietnamese Laos. The underlying theory is concept meaning system, meronymy. research methods used by are field linguistic, descriptive, comparative-contrastive methods. surveyed 107 Vietnamese, 91 Laos holonyms meronyms mussels. number mussels more than has 16 lexical gaps compared to Vietnamese. Hence, l...

Anaphors in German and English Stefanie Dipper, Christine Rieger, Melanie Seiss, and Heike Zinsmeister 1 Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany 2 University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany Abstract. Abstract anaphors refer to abstract referents such as facts or events. Automatic resolution of this kind of anaphora still poses a problem for language processing systems. The present pa...