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The School of Linguistics was founded in December 2014. Today, the School offers undergraduate and graduate programs in theoretical and computational linguistics. Linguistics as it is taught and researched at the School does not simply involve mastering foreign languages. Rather, it is the science of language and the methods of its modeling. Research groups in the School of Linguistics study typology, socio-linguistics and areal linguistics, corpus linguistics and lexicography, ancient languages and the history of languages. The School is also developing linguistic technologies and electronic resources: corpora, training simulators, dictionaries, thesauruses, and tools for digital storage and processing of written texts.
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Cognitive linguistics and modularity: a lecture by prof. Dirk Geeraerts
Empirical evidence regarding modularity primarily comes from psychological research, in the form of interactions between different modes of cognition in human cognitive processing, or in the form of double dissociations between cognitive faculties. But could we also test modularity when we follow a corpus-based method of linguistic analysis? In this talk, I will explore the consequences of usage-based cognitive sociolinguistics (Kristiansen & Dirven 2008, Geeraerts et al. 2010) for an analysis of modularity in language behavior.
Four steps will be taken. First, starting from the idea that in the case of modularity, the different modules should exert their influence in an independent way (a feature sometimes referred to as 'encapsulation'), I will suggest that convincing evidence for non-encapsulation may take the methodological form of interaction effects in regression analyses (regression analysis being the dominant confirmatory technique in quantitative corpus-based cognitive sociolinguistics). Second, reviewing a number empirical studies using such regression techniques, I will present examples of non-modular effects that may be observed in the growing body of corpus-based cognitive sociolinguistics. Third, by way of theoretical discussion, I will analyze two problems arising from the overview: the question whether encapsulation is indeed a diagnostic feature of modularity (the point is considerably debated in psychological research), and the question whether lectal factors may be legitimately included in the discussion of modularity, or whether they should rather be considered as defining different linguistic systems, each with their own (non-)modularity. Fourth, the shift towards non-modular conceptions of grammars and lects will be situated against the background of the history of linguistics.
Kristiansen, Gitte and René Dirven (eds.). 2008. Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Geeraerts, Dirk, Gitte Kristiansen and Yves Peirsman (eds.). 2010. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter Mouton.