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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
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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