Memory, Mind and Language

The book 'Memory, Mind and Language' celebrates the 30th anniversary of the The Nordic Association of Linguists (NAL) and the main contribution is the history of those first 30 years. The book is also an overview of trends and basic problems in linguistics in the first decennium of the 21st century. It takes up a number of topics in the field, among them the question of synchrony vs. diachrony in the language sciences, the problems of how to investigate the relation between language and brain and mind, and it proposes some preliminary solutions to that problem, and, most significantly, the book touches on both general and specific issues in theory and analysis, e.g. 'adverbs in English and Norwegian', 'verb semantics', 'pronouns in Estonian', 'morphology and neurolinguistics', 'word order and morphology', 'the nature and use of prepotions' and 'speech acts'. The scholars who have contributed to the volume come from all kinds of traditions in linguistics, a fact that shows the broadness of the content.