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Board of the Linguistic Association of Finland 1997 Chairperson: Marj a Leinonen

Secretary: Meri Larjavaara Treasurer: Irja Alho

Address:

Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys r.y.

c/o Department of Linguistics, PL 4 00014 University of Helsinki

Finland

1VWW : http://www.ling.helsinki.filsky

E-mail addresses: Marja.Leinonen@uta.fi, Meri.Larjavaara@helsinki.ñ Members:

Kirsi Hiltunen ^(Joensuu) Elise K¿irkkãinen (Oulu) Meri Larjavaara (Helsinki) Krista Ojutkangas (Turku) Jamo Raukko (Helsinki) Marja-Leena Sorjonen (Helsinki)

Deputy Members:

Jussi Niemi (Joensuu) Helena Sulkala (Oulu) Ilona Herlin (Helsinki) Matti Miestamo (Turku) Ma{a Piilsi (Helsinki) Urho Määttå (Tampere)

The Linguistic Association

of

Finland was founded

in

1977

to

promote linguistic research in Finland by offering a forum for the discusion a¡rd dissemination of research in linguistics, both in Finland and abroad. Membership is open to anyone interested in linguistics; membership forms can be obtained from any of the board members. The membership fee in 1997 was 130 FIM ⁽⁷⁰FIM for students and unemployed members).

Members are sent a newsletter and they receive the Association's yearbook gratis.

Notes

for

Contributors

Policy: The Association's Yearbook is ^publishedon an annual basis. Every article is refereed by at last two anonymous referees.

Language

of

Publication: Contributions should

be

written

in an

intemational conference language (English, German, or ^French).

If

the article is not written in the native language

of

the author, the language should be revised by a qualified native speaker before submission.

Submission

of

Manuscripts: Manuscripts

(in

3 copies) should be submitted to the Editors.

Style Sheet: A detailed style sheet is available from the Editors.

Editors' Addresscs:

Timo Haukioj4 Department of Linguistics, Henrikinkatu 4a,20014 University of Turku, Finland (e-mail timhau@utu.fi)

Marja-Liisa Helasvuo,

Maantie l0 A, 11130 Riihimäki, Finland

^(e-mail

helasvuo@helsinki.fi)

Matti Miestamo, Department

of

Linguistics, Henrikinkatu 4a, 20014 University of Turku, Finland (e-mail matti.miestamo@utu.fi)

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Acknowledgements .

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Scott DeLancey'.

What an Innatist Argument Should Look Like Geoffrey K. Pullum & Barbara C. ^Scholz:

Theoretical Linguistics and the Ontology of Linguistic Structure

Esa ltkonen:

The Social Ontolory of Linguistic Meaning . .

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Urpo Nikanne:

Lexical Conceptual Structure and Syntactic Arguments

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Esa Penttilã:

Holistic Meaning and Cognition Jarno Raukko:

The Status of Polysemy in Linguistics:

From Discrete Meanings to Default Flexibility Anna Solin:

Debating Theoretical Assumptions:

Readings of Critical Linguistics

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Acknowledgements

The editors want to express their gratitude to the entities who made this yearbook possible: the authors, for sending their contributions, the referees, for devoting their time and enerry to reviewing those contributions, and, last but not ^least, ^the

Academy of Finland, for financial help.

In addition to this, as the present volume is ^10th ⁱⁿ ^the

series of SKY Yearbooks, we also want to thank all those who contributed, in one way or ^another, to the earlier volumes ^and made it a yearly tradition.