1304 Pages 85 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field.

    Selected entries include:

    Identity and Language
    India
    Indo-European 4: Romance
    Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
    Interpreting
    Jakobson, Roman
    Japanese
    Juba/Nubi Arabic
    Khmer & Mon-Khmer Languages
    Knowledge Representation
    Krio
    Lakoff, George
    Language Death
    Latin
    Levi-Strauss, Claude
    Linguistic Anthropology
    Louisiana French Creole
    Machine Translation
    Maori and Polynesian Languages
    McCawley, James D.
    Metaphor
    Middle English
    Modern Linguistics
    Mongolian
    Morphology
    Naming
    New Guinea
    Noun Incorporation
    Number Marking
    Old Church Slavic
    Old Irish
    Old Norse
    Onomatopoeia
    Oto-Manguean Languages
    Panini
    Parsing
    Peirce, Charles
    Personality and Language
    Philosophy of Language
    Phonetics
    Pidgins and Creoles
    Pike, Kenneth
    Plurality
    Possessives
    Proficiency Testing
    Psycholinguistics
    Questions
    Quine, W.V. (Willard Van Orman)
    Reading Impairment
    Reference
    Rhetoric
    Rules vs. Constraints
    Russell, Bertrand
    Sanskrit
    Scandinavia
    Searle, John
    Second Language Learning
    Semantics
    Signal Systems
    Sindhi
    Sociolinguistics
    South Africa
    South America: Peru
    Soviet Union: Successor States
    Spectral Analysis
    Speech Processing
    Speech Synthesis
    Standard Language
    Structuralism
    Sumerian
    Sweet, Henry
    Syllable: Structure
    Syntax
    Taboo
    Teaching Methods
    Tense: Syntax
    Text Summarization
    Thai and Tai Languages
    Tibetan
    Tocharian
    Translation
    Traug ott, Elizabeth
    Turing, A.M.
    Turkish and Turkic Languages
    Typology
    United States
    Universal Grammar
    Variation Theory
    Visual Word Recognition
    Vowel Harmony
    Wackernagel, Jacob
    Western Caribbean Creole
    Wittgenstein, Ludwig
    Word Order
    Working Memory (Neurobiology)
    Writing Systems
    Yiddish
    Zulu and Southern Bantu Languages
    Zwicky, Arnold

    Biography

    Philipp Strazny

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