Discussion club
Unresolved problems in the Study of Nature and Evolution of Human Language
Actual problems in Lexicology and Lexicography
Dear participants of the discussion club
and those who are going to take part in it,
Our goal is to consider some interesting and still unresolved problems of general theory of Human Language.
Discussion may develop from one problem to another, as well as, possibly, continue parallel discussion of several previously raised questions (marked by different names in a line “subject”).
As an initial subject for the discussion I suggest the following:
“Regularities of Human Language Evolution”.
Putting forward this problem, as it seems, will give an opportunity to deal from the very beginning of the forum with the most synthetic topics of modern linguistics which embrase a variety of other more specific topics.
Sub-subjects for discussing:
- From animal languages to the Human Language: factors and mechanisms of emergence of Humankind and its Language;
- Universal, typological and stylistic features of Human Language Evolution;
- Evolution in the course of communication: communicative forces for linguistic evolution;
- Correspondence between micro- and macro- processes in the evolution of languages.
For the beginning of the discussion I have suggested some works of mine on these problems.
There are some reflections on them which someone can look at below.
Other contributions are welcome!
- Anatoliy A. Polikarpov
Cognitive Model of Lexical System Evolution and its Verification
Anatoliy A. Polikarpov
A.A. Polikapov (In Russian)
Cyclic Processes in Becoming of Lexical System: Modeling and Experiment.
For the beginning of the discussion for the topic "Actual problems of Lexicology and Lexicography", I suggest some new lexicographical projects as follows:
In Russian
A.A. Smirnov
In Russian
A.A. Smirnov
Tightness of the text and experience of writers lexicography
In Russian
V.P. Grigoryev, L.I. Kolodyazhnaya, L.L. Shestakova
In Russian
V.P. Grigoryev, L.I. Kolodyazhnaya, L.L. Shestakova
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Some reflections on discussion papers
Good luck!
The editor of the list -
Anatoliy Anatolievitch Polikarpov
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