A C T A U N I V E R S I T A T I S L O D Z I E N S I S FO L IA L IN G U IST IC A 36, 1997
IN T R O D U C T IO N
T h e presen t p u b licatio n is a survey o f a n u m b er o f topics an d issues w hich p o in t to recent developm ents in linguistics and lan g uag e studies.
P a rt I raises th e p roblem s enco u n tered in th e studies o f th e lexicon and is th e second in th e p lan n ed series o f volum es focusing on th e form an d fu n c tio n o f th e lexicon in n a tu ra l languag e (the first o n e Topics in English L exico lo g y w as published in 1993 as Folia L inguistica 30).
In stig ated by the P olish-E nglish B ilingual T h esau ru s P ro ject (B IT ) in th e D e p a rtm e n t o f English L anguage, a t th e U niversity o f Ł ó d ź, P a rt 1 com prises six co n trib u tio n s, rang ing from the topics w hich cover th e place a n d fu n c tio n o f com puters in the lexicâl analysis o f lan gu age an d its ap p licatio n s, discussion o f selected issues in a m o n o lin g u a l as well as m u ltilin g u al analysis o f a n u m b er o f co nceptu al Fields in E nglish, P olish, a n d S p anish, u p to the articles w hich describe th em atic and valency fram es o f verbs as seen in d ifferent theoretical fram ew orks: cognitive sem antics, function al g ram m ar, governm ent and binding as well as dependency m odels.
P a rt II is m o re hetero g en o u s an d includes c o n trib u tio n s co nn ected w ith th e o re tic a l issues in linguistics, h isto rical linguistics, p sy ch o lin g u istics, sociology o f lan guage, speech studies an d foreign lan gu age teaching.
A ll p ap e rs included in th e volum e raise a n u m b er o f im p o rta n t issues in th e language studies, b o th o f a th eo retical as well as applied n atu re .
Barbara L ew a nd ow ska -T om aszczyk
