To Be or Not to Be a Word ― New Reflections on the Definition of Word

Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza. Her work focuses on cross-linguistic polysemy, constructions, semantic typology, sound symbolism, metaphor, perception, space-motion, and Basque. Her most recent publications include the books Cognitive Linguistics and Translation (with A. Rojo); Linguistica Cognitiva (with J. Valenzuela); Language, Mind, and the Lexicon (with Inchaurralde and Garcia); and Sound symbolism and motion in Basque.Jose-Luis Mendivil-Giro is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza. His research has focused on the theory of grammar and the nature and extent of linguistic change and diversity. He is the author of Origen, evolucion y diversidad de las lenguas. Una aproximacion biolinguistica, and co-author (with Juan-Carlos Moreno Cabrera) of On Biology, History and Culture in Human Language. He has also edited (with C. Boeckx and M.C. Horno-Cheliz) Language, from a Biological Point of View.