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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Answer to the query by
<STRONG><EM>Wolfgang Schulze</EM></STRONG>:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To my knowldge the term 'Cognitive Typology' has
never been used before the announcement of the very interesting programm of the
Antwerp conference.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my eyes CT can be but a shortening for
'Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology', meaning by this the interface
between the cognitive and the typological approach to language. Some linguistic
types (or,better,some typologically relevant constructions) can be more
widespread than others because they are easier to process. For instance,
analytic constructions come closer to the principle 1 form:1 meaning; and we may
indeed observe the evolution from more synthetic to more analytic strategies in
many linguistic traditions. Of course, this it is not to mean that all languages
<U>must </U>participate of such an evolution: many interfering factors can stop
or reverse the general tendency. This is, I think, the perspective where the
cooperation between cognitive and typological approaches can be
fruitful.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial
size=2>--------------------------------------<BR>Prof. Paolo
Ramat<BR>Dipartimento di Linguistica<BR>Università di Pavia<BR>Strada
Nuova
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Tel secretary 0039 0382 504 484<BR>I-27100
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