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Die Sprachkenntnis ist ein überaus ökonomisches Wissenssystem, das zur Produktion und Interpretation von Äußerungen gewöhnlich nur beiträgt, was nicht durch die übrigen konzeptuellen Systeme geliefert wird. Language, Context and Cognition untersucht diese konzeptuelle Unterspezifikation und Kontextabhängigkeit in der Grammatik und Textproduktion in enger Kooperation der Linguistik mit Kognitionswissenschaft, Logik undPragmatik.

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The volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages. It takes stock of the past 20 years of research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. The papers tackle issues of all grammatical subdisciplines in current models of description, compare parts of the grammars of Slavic languages, and explain categories and phrases that do not exist in present-day Indogermanic languages of Western Europe.

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Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Thus, conceptual underspecification and context-dependence are essential properties, which vary from one particular language to the next in dependence on the structural make-up a given language belongs to.

The book series "Language, Context and Cognition" explores the essential properties of natural languages in focusing on their lexical entries, on the interaction of their grammatical subsystems as well as on the text production methods, from both synchronic and diachronic viewpoints.

Research on the conceptual underspecification of language requires close cooperation of linguists with researchers in cognitive and neuroscience, with phoneticians, logicians and with the experts of pragmatic and experimental disciplines, but it also needs interdisciplinary cooperation with students of non-linguistic conceptual systems.

Editorial board (vol. 10 onwards)

Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School)

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes)

Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig)

Prof. Dr. Richard Wiese (Universität Marburg)

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Olav Mueller-Reichau und Marcel Guhl, Universität Leipzig.

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