SFB 471: Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon

这个合作研究中心的中心主题是语言在心理词汇中的表现，它在不同的语言和方言中是如何变化的，以及它是如何随时间变化的。所研究的语言涵盖了大量的语族和语言区域：日耳曼语、波罗的海-斯拉夫语、罗曼语、印度-雅利安语、乌拉尔语、阿尔泰语和亚非语系。共同关注语言结构与认知和文化的相互作用，但使用多种方法，这个合作研究中心跨越了教师部门（历史与社会学，文学，语言学和哲学）的界限。所采用的方法包括理论语言学、实验心理语言学、自发言语的解释分析以及文本的语言学和历史分析。每个研究小组的跨学科方法是这项事业的基础。

The central theme of this collaborative research centre is the representation of language in the mental lexicon, how it varies across languages and dialects, and how it changes in time. The languages researched cover a large number of language families and language areas: Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Romance, Indo-Aryan, Uralic, Altaic and Afro-Asiatic. Sharing a focus on the interplay of language structure with cognition and culture, but using a variety of methodologies this collaborative research centre cuts across the boundaries of the faculty's departments (History & Sociology, Literature, Linguistics, and Philosophy). The methods employed include theroretical linguistics, experimental psycholinguistics, the interpretive analysis of spontaneous speech, and philological and historical analyses of texts. An interdisciplinary approach of each research group is fundamental to this enterprise.