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INTRODUCTION Wolfgang Wildgen University of Bremen The volume "Process Linguistics" contains the second series of articles collected by Thomas Ballmer in the years 1981 and 1982. He had the intention to represent the entire range of scientific activities in this new sector of linguistic research. The first series of papers was completed when Thomas Ballmer died (2nt^ de-cember 1984) and my colleagues Hannes Rieser and Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer took care of it. The volume "Linguistic Dynamics. Dis-courses, Procedures and Evolution" appeared in the collection "Research in Text Theory" (De Gruyter, Berlin, 1985). The original introduction to the two volumes written by Thomas Ballmer is published as a section of this book (pp. 1-14). As the second volume was not complete and finished, it had to be modified. I included some new articles: Thomas Ballmer's essay: "Case, Aktionsart and Ergativity" and an article by myself, which is complementary to Ballmer's paper and elaborates some ideas put forward by him. Some of the articles originally submitted had been published in the meantime, some have been withdrawn or revised by the authors. The general character of the volume, however, is in accordance with Ballmer's original concept. Almost five years after Thomas Ballmer's initiative we can look back on the "dynamic movement", which began in the mid-seventies and had its heyday between 1981 and 1985. As a point of departure of our "historical" reflection we can consider the first announce-ment of the volume "Linguistic Dynamics", written by Thomas Ballmer in 1981.
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INTRODUCTION Wolfgang Wildgen University of Bremen The volume "Process Linguistics" contains the second series of articles collected by Thomas Ballmer in the years 1981 and 1982. He had the intention to represent the entire range of scientific activities in this new sector of linguistic research. The first series of papers was completed when Thomas Ballmer died (2nt^ de-cember 1984) and my colleagues Hannes Rieser and Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer took care of it. The volume "Linguistic Dynamics. Dis-courses, Procedures and Evolution" appeared in the collection "Research in Text Theory" (De Gruyter, Berlin, 1985). The original introduction to the two volumes written by Thomas Ballmer is published as a section of this book (pp. 1-14). As the second volume was not complete and finished, it had to be modified. I included some new articles: Thomas Ballmer's essay: "Case, Aktionsart and Ergativity" and an article by myself, which is complementary to Ballmer's paper and elaborates some ideas put forward by him. Some of the articles originally submitted had been published in the meantime, some have been withdrawn or revised by the authors. The general character of the volume, however, is in accordance with Ballmer's original concept. Almost five years after Thomas Ballmer's initiative we can look back on the "dynamic movement", which began in the mid-seventies and had its heyday between 1981 and 1985. As a point of departure of our "historical" reflection we can consider the first announce-ment of the volume "Linguistic Dynamics", written by Thomas Ballmer in 1981.
© 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS V
  3. INTRODUCTION 1
  4. PART ONE: MODELLING PROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF (NONLINEAR) DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY
  5. "MISTER! YOUR BACK WHEEL’S GOING ROUND!" 11
  6. CASE, AKTIONSART AND ERGATIVITY. A SEMANTICAL BASE FOR TYPOLOGICAL ISSUES 37
  7. DYNAMIC AND ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR A THEORY OF THE LEXICON 80
  8. DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF NOMINAL COMPOSITION 128
  9. PART TWO: THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
  10. DYNAMIC SEMANTICS 165
  11. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN AN INTERACTIVE, SEMANTIC-COGNITIVE, AND NEUROLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 186
  12. NEW WORDS, COMPLEXITY AND ARBITRARINESS 227
  13. SPEECH ACTS AND CONTEXT CHANGE 252
  14. PART THREE: LANGUAGE PROCESSES WITHIN DIFFERENT FRAMEWORKS (LOGICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; STATISTICS)
  15. THE DYNAMIC INTERPRETATION OF DISCOURSE 283
  16. USER MODELLING IN ANAPHORA GENERATION: ELLIPSIS AND DEFINITE DESCRIPTION 309
  17. STATISTICAL MODELING OF THE SPEECH FLOW 328
  18. INDEX OF NAMES 383
  19. INDEX OF SUBJECTS 386
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS V
  3. INTRODUCTION 1
  4. PART ONE: MODELLING PROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF (NONLINEAR) DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY
  5. "MISTER! YOUR BACK WHEEL’S GOING ROUND!" 11
  6. CASE, AKTIONSART AND ERGATIVITY. A SEMANTICAL BASE FOR TYPOLOGICAL ISSUES 37
  7. DYNAMIC AND ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR A THEORY OF THE LEXICON 80
  8. DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF NOMINAL COMPOSITION 128
  9. PART TWO: THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
  10. DYNAMIC SEMANTICS 165
  11. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN AN INTERACTIVE, SEMANTIC-COGNITIVE, AND NEUROLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 186
  12. NEW WORDS, COMPLEXITY AND ARBITRARINESS 227
  13. SPEECH ACTS AND CONTEXT CHANGE 252
  14. PART THREE: LANGUAGE PROCESSES WITHIN DIFFERENT FRAMEWORKS (LOGICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; STATISTICS)
  15. THE DYNAMIC INTERPRETATION OF DISCOURSE 283
  16. USER MODELLING IN ANAPHORA GENERATION: ELLIPSIS AND DEFINITE DESCRIPTION 309
  17. STATISTICAL MODELING OF THE SPEECH FLOW 328
  18. INDEX OF NAMES 383
  19. INDEX OF SUBJECTS 386
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