ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter 1A|112 pages
entry |3 pages
Acoustic Phonetics
entry |5 pages
Acquisition
entry |4 pages
Acquisition Theories
entry |2 pages
Aerodynamics of the Vocal Tract
entry |4 pages
Affixation
entry |3 pages
African American Vernacular English
entry |4 pages
Afroasiatic
entry |3 pages
Age and Language
entry |5 pages
Agreement
entry |4 pages
Ainu
entry |4 pages
Akan and Nyo Languages
entry |3 pages
Albanian
entry |4 pages
Algeria
entry |3 pages
Altaic
entry |2 pages
Ambiguity
entry |3 pages
American Sign Language
entry |3 pages
Amharic and Ethiopian Semitic Languages
entry |3 pages
Analogical Change
entry |3 pages
Anaphora
entry |4 pages
Anatomy of the Articulatory System
entry |2 pages
Anatomy of the Auditory System
entry |4 pages
Ancient Egyptian
entry |5 pages
Ancient Greek
entry |3 pages
Animals and Human Language 1
entry |2 pages
Animals and Human Language 2
entry |2 pages
Animals and Human Language 3
entry |4 pages
Animals and Human Language 4
entry |3 pages
Aphasia
entry |3 pages
Applied Linguistics
entry |4 pages
Arabic
entry |2 pages
Arabic Traditional Grammar
entry |3 pages
Aramaic
entry |4 pages
Arawak
entry |2 pages
Archeology and Language
entry |4 pages
Armenian
entry |3 pages
Artificial Intelligence
entry |4 pages
Artificial Languages
entry |2 pages
Aspect
entry |3 pages
Assimilation and Coarticulation
entry |3 pages
Assimilation and Dissimilation
entry |3 pages
Austin, John Langshaw
entry |4 pages
Australia
entry |3 pages
Austria
entry |3 pages
Austroasiatic
entry |4 pages
Austronesian
entry |2 pages
Auxiliaries
letter 113B|56 pages
entry |2 pages
Babylonian Traditional Grammar
entry |5 pages
Balkans
entry |4 pages
Baltic Languages
entry |4 pages
Bambara, Mandenkan and the Mande languages
entry |3 pages
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua
entry |2 pages
Basque
entry |3 pages
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Ignacy Niecis Baw
entry |3 pages
Belgium
entry |3 pages
Benveniste, Emile
entry |3 pages
Bever, Thomas
entry |3 pages
Bilingual Acquisition
entry |2 pages
Bilingual Mixed Languages
entry |2 pages
Bilingualism
entry |2 pages
Biosemiotics
entry |3 pages
Bloomfield, Leonard
entry |3 pages
Boas, Franz
entry |1 pages
Body Language
entry |3 pages
Bopp, Franz
entry |4 pages
Brain Organization and Auditory Pathway
entry |3 pages
Bresnan, Joan
entry |2 pages
British Sign Language
entry |2 pages
Brugmann, Karl
entry |3 pages
Bühler, Karl
entry |4 pages
Burmese
entry |6 pages
Burushaski
letter 169C|84 pages
entry |3 pages
Canada
entry |2 pages
Cape Verdean Creole
entry |4 pages
Carib and Cariban Languages
entry |4 pages
Caribbean
entry |2 pages
Case
entry |3 pages
Causation
entry |3 pages
Celtic Languages
entry |3 pages
Chafe, Wallace
entry |3 pages
Chao Yuen Ren
entry |6 pages
China
entry |5 pages
Chinese (Mandarin)
entry |3 pages
Chinese and Japanese Traditional Grammar
entry |2 pages
Chinese Pidgin English
entry |3 pages
Chinese Pidgin Russian
entry |3 pages
Chinook Jargon
entry |4 pages
Chomsky, Noam
entry |3 pages
Clark, Eve V.
entry |2 pages
Clause
entry |3 pages
Clause-Type Indicators
entry |2 pages
Clinical Linguistics
entry |3 pages
Code-Switching
entry |3 pages
Coherence in Discourse
entry |2 pages
Color Terms
entry |3 pages
Communication Theory
entry |3 pages
Comparative Method
entry |1 pages
Compositional Semantics
entry |3 pages
Compounding
entry |4 pages
Computational Linguistics
entry |3 pages
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
entry |2 pages
Comrie, Bernard
entry |3 pages
Configurationality
entry |2 pages
Connectionism
entry |3 pages
Constituency Test
entry |2 pages
Context
entry |3 pages
Conversation Analysis
entry |2 pages
Coordination
entry |5 pages
Coptic Egyptian
entry |3 pages
Corpus Linguistics
entry |3 pages
Courtroom Discourse
entry |2 pages
Crioulo, Gulf of Guinea
entry |3 pages
Crioulo, Upper Guinea
letter 253D|26 pages
entry |3 pages
Dakota and Siouan Languages
entry |3 pages
Deep Structure
entry |3 pages
Definiteness
entry |3 pages
Deixis
entry |2 pages
Determiner
entry |3 pages
Developmental Stages
entry |3 pages
Dialectology
entry |2 pages
Diglossia
entry |3 pages
Discourse Analysis
entry |2 pages
Discourse Strategies
entry |2 pages
Dravidian
entry |3 pages
Dutch
entry |3 pages
Dyslexia
letter 279E|44 pages
entry |3 pages
Emeneau, Murray Barnson
entry |2 pages
Emotion and Language
entry |3 pages
Empty Categories
entry |2 pages
Empty Morphemes
entry |2 pages
Endangered Languages
entry |7 pages
English
entry |3 pages
Epenthesis and Syncope
entry |4 pages
Eskimo-Aleut
entry |5 pages
Ethnicity and Language
entry |2 pages
Ethnography of Communication
entry |3 pages
Etymology
entry |2 pages
Euphemism
entry |3 pages
European Traditional Grammar
entry |3 pages
Evolution of Language 1
entry |5 pages
Evolution of Language 2
entry |3 pages
Evolution of Language 3
entry |3 pages
Evolution of Language 4
entry |4 pages
Ewe and Gbe languages
letter 323F|44 pages
entry |2 pages
Fanakalo
entry |4 pages
Farsi
entry |5 pages
Feature Theory
entry |3 pages
Ferguson, Charles Albert
entry |3 pages
Field Methods
entry |3 pages
Figurative Speech
entry |3 pages
Fillmore, Charles John
entry |2 pages
Finite-State Morphology
entry |4 pages
Finnish and Finnic Languages
entry |3 pages
Firth, John Rupert
entry |2 pages
Fishman, Joshua A.
entry |2 pages
Focality
entry |4 pages
Forensic Linguistics
entry |4 pages
France
entry |4 pages
French Language
entry |3 pages
Fromkin, Victoria Alexandra
entry |3 pages
Function Words
entry |3 pages
Functional Approaches
letter 367G|62 pages
entry |4 pages
Gender and Language
entry |2 pages
Gender: Class Marking
entry |2 pages
Generation
entry |4 pages
Generative Grammar
entry |2 pages
Genericity
entry |2 pages
Genetic Relationship
entry |2 pages
Genre
entry |4 pages
Georgian and Caucasian Languages
entry |4 pages
German
entry |6 pages
Germany
entry |2 pages
Givón, Talmy
entry |3 pages
Gothic
entry |2 pages
Grammar, Traditional
entry |5 pages
Grammar, Theories
entry |2 pages
Grammatical Function
entry |3 pages
Grammaticalization
entry |4 pages
Great Britain
entry |3 pages
Great Vowel Shift
entry |4 pages
Greek, Modern
entry |3 pages
Greenberg, Joseph Harold
entry |4 pages
Grice, H. Paul
entry |2 pages
Grimm, Jacob
entry |5 pages
Guaymí and Chibchan Languages
entry |4 pages
Gullah
entry |3 pages
Gumperz, John Joseph
letter 429H|58 pages
entry |3 pages
Haas, Mary Rosamond
entry |2 pages
Haitian Creole
entry |4 pages
Hale, Kenneth
entry |3 pages
Halle, Morris
entry |3 pages
Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood
entry |3 pages
Handwriting
entry |3 pages
Harris, Zellig Sabbetai
entry |3 pages
Haugen, Einar
entry |3 pages
Hausa and Chadic Languages
entry |3 pages
Hawaiian Creole English
entry |3 pages
Hebrew
entry |3 pages
Hebrew
entry |5 pages
Hindi-Urdu
entry |3 pages
Hiri Motu
entry |4 pages
Historical Linguistics
entry |4 pages
History of Linguistics
entry |4 pages
Hittite
entry |3 pages
Hjelmslev, Louis
entry |5 pages
Hmong and Hmong-Mien (Miao- Yao) languages
entry |3 pages
Hockett, Charles F.
entry |3 pages
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
entry |4 pages
Hungarian and Ugric Languages
entry |3 pages
Hymes, Dell Hathaway
letter 487I|62 pages
entry |2 pages
Iconicity
entry |2 pages
Identity And Language
entry |3 pages
Ideology and Language
entry |2 pages
Idiomaticity
entry |2 pages
Idioms
entry |3 pages
Igbo and Igboid Languages
entry |8 pages
India
entry |2 pages
Indian Ocean Creoles
entry |3 pages
Indian Traditional Grammar
entry |4 pages
Indo-European 1
entry |4 pages
Indo-European 2
entry |3 pages
Indo-European 3
entry |5 pages
Indo-European 4
entry |4 pages
Indo-European 5
entry |6 pages
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
entry |2 pages
Inflection and Derivation
entry |4 pages
Information Retrieval
entry |4 pages
Interpreting
entry |2 pages
Irony
entry |5 pages
Israel
entry |4 pages
Italian
entry |4 pages
Italy
letter 549J|20 pages
entry |3 pages
Jakobson, Roman
entry |5 pages
Japanese
entry |4 pages
Japanese Sign Language
entry |5 pages
Javanese
entry |4 pages
Jespersen, Otto
entry |3 pages
Jones, Sir William
entry |2 pages
Juba and Nubi Arabic
letter 569K|20 pages
entry |3 pages
Kayardild and the Tangkic Languages
entry |3 pages
Khmer and Mon-Khmer Languages
entry |3 pages
Khoisan
entry |2 pages
Kinship Terms
entry |3 pages
Kituba
entry |6 pages
Korean
entry |2 pages
Krio (and West African Pidgin English)
entry |4 pages
Kriol (Roper River Creole)
letter 589L|50 pages
entry |3 pages
Labov, William
entry |3 pages
Ladefoged, Peter
entry |3 pages
Lakoff, George
entry |3 pages
Langacker, Ronald
entry |4 pages
Language Change
entry |3 pages
Language: Contact—Overview
entry |2 pages
Language Death
entry |3 pages
Language Planning
entry |2 pages
Language Socialization
entry |3 pages
Lateralization and Handedness
entry |4 pages
Latin
entry |2 pages
Lehmann, Winfred Philipp
entry |3 pages
Leskien, August
entry |3 pages
Lesser Antillean French Creole
entry |4 pages
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
entry |3 pages
Lexical Borrowing
entry |2 pages
Lexicalization
entry |3 pages
Lexicon
entry |2 pages
Lingua Franca
entry |3 pages
Literacy
entry |3 pages
Localization of Linguistic Information
entry |3 pages
Long-Distance Dependency
entry |3 pages
Long-Range Comparison
entry |2 pages
Louisiana Creole
entry |3 pages
Lyons, John
letter 639M|82 pages
entry |2 pages
Machine Translation
entry |4 pages
Malagasy
entry |4 pages
Malay-Indonesian and Malayic languages
entry |3 pages
Malkiel, Yakov
entry |2 pages
Manner of Articulation
entry |4 pages
Maori and the Polynesian Languages
entry |3 pages
Marshallese and Micronesian Languages
entry |3 pages
Martinet, André
entry |4 pages
Mass Media and Language
entry |2 pages
Mathematical Linguistics
entry |5 pages
Maya and Mayan Languages
entry |3 pages
McCawley, James David
entry |5 pages
Meaning
entry |4 pages
Medicine and Language
entry |3 pages
Meillet, Antoine
entry |2 pages
Metaphor
entry |3 pages
Metathesis
entry |3 pages
Metonymy
entry |3 pages
Mexico
entry |4 pages
Middle (Classical) Japanese
entry |4 pages
Middle English
entry |3 pages
Migration and Language
entry |3 pages
Miskito and Misumalpan Languages
entry |2 pages
Modern Linguistics
entry |3 pages
Modification
entry |4 pages
Mohawk and the Iroquoian Languages
entry |4 pages
Mongolian
entry |3 pages
Montague, Richard
entry |2 pages
Mood
entry |4 pages
Moore and the Gur Languages
entry |2 pages
Morpheme
entry |3 pages
Morphological Typology
entry |3 pages
Morphology
entry |4 pages
Murrinh-Patha and the Daly Languages
letter 721N|42 pages
entry |4 pages
Nahuatl and Uto-Aztecan Languages
entry |3 pages
Naming
entry |3 pages
Natural Classes
entry |4 pages
Navajo and Athabaskan-Eyak Language
entry |4 pages
Neurolinguistics
entry |4 pages
New Guinea
entry |3 pages
Nida, Eugene Albert
entry |4 pages
Niger-Congo
entry |8 pages
Nigeria
entry |5 pages
Nilo-Saharan Languages
entry |4 pages
Nootka and Wakashan Languages
entry |3 pages
Northwest Caucasian Languages
entry |2 pages
Noun Incorporation
entry |3 pages
Number Marking
letter 763O|38 pages
entry |2 pages
Official Language Selection
entry |4 pages
Ojibwe and Algonquian Languages
entry |5 pages
Okanagan and Salishan Languages
entry |4 pages
Old Chinese
entry |3 pages
Old Church Slavonic
entry |4 pages
Old English
entry |3 pages
Old French
entry |4 pages
Old High German
entry |3 pages
Old Irish
entry |4 pages
Old Japanese
entry |3 pages
Old Norse
entry |3 pages
Old Tibetan
entry |2 pages
Onomatopoeia
entry |4 pages
Oto-Manguean Languages
letter 801P|84 pages
entry |3 pages
Pacific
entry |4 pages
Pama-Nyungan
entry |2 pages
Panͅini
entry |3 pages
Papiamento
entry |3 pages
Paralanguage
entry |4 pages
Parsing
entry |2 pages
Paul, Hermann
entry |2 pages
Peirce, Charles Sanders
entry |2 pages
Personality and Language
entry |3 pages
Philippine Spanish Creoles
entry |3 pages
Philology
entry |2 pages
Philosophy of Language
entry |3 pages
Phoneme
entry |3 pages
Phonetic Transcription
entry |8 pages
Phonetics
entry |3 pages
Phonology
entry |5 pages
Phrase Structure
entry |4 pages
Pidgins and Creoles
entry |3 pages
Pike, Kenneth Lee
entry |4 pages
Pintupi and Pama-Nyungan Languages
entry |3 pages
Pitcairnese
entry |3 pages
Place of Articulation
entry |3 pages
Plurality
entry |5 pages
Polish and West Slavic Languages
entry |2 pages
Politeness
entry |3 pages
Possessives
entry |4 pages
Pragmatics
entry |3 pages
Predication
entry |2 pages
Professions for Linguists
entry |3 pages
Proficiency Testing
entry |2 pages
Pro-forms
entry |2 pages
Proper Nouns
entry |2 pages
Prosody
entry |4 pages
Psycholinguistics
letter 885Q|8 pages
entry |3 pages
Quantification
entry |2 pages
Questions
entry |4 pages
Quine, Willard van Orman
letter 893R|26 pages
entry |2 pages
Reading
entry |3 pages
Reading Impairment
entry |3 pages
Reference
entry |2 pages
Register
entry |3 pages
Reichenbach, Hans
entry |3 pages
Relevance in Discourse
entry |4 pages
Rhetoric and Linguistics
entry |2 pages
Romanian
entry |4 pages
Rules vs. Constraints
entry |3 pages
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
entry |7 pages
Russian and East Slavic Languages
letter 919S|154 pages
entry |2 pages
Sandhi
entry |5 pages
Sanskrit
entry |3 pages
Sapir, Edward
entry |2 pages
Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis
entry |3 pages
Saramaccan
entry |3 pages
Saussure, Ferdinand de
entry |5 pages
Scandinavia
entry |3 pages
Searle, John R
entry |3 pages
Second Language
entry |4 pages
Second Language
entry |3 pages
Second Language
entry |3 pages
Semantic and Discourse Typology
entry |3 pages
Semantics
entry |4 pages
Semiotics
entry |5 pages
Semitic Languages
entry |3 pages
Serbo-Croatian and South Slavic Languages
entry |2 pages
Serial Verb Constructions
entry |2 pages
Sign Relationships
entry |5 pages
Signed Languages
entry |6 pages
Sindhi
entry |4 pages
Sino-Tibetan Languages
entry |3 pages
Slobin, Dan Isaac
entry |3 pages
Sociolect
entry |4 pages
Sociolinguistics
entry |6 pages
Soundwave Analysis
entry |4 pages
South Africa
entry |3 pages
South America
entry |4 pages
South America
entry |3 pages
Southeast Asia
entry |4 pages
Soviet Union
entry |8 pages
Soviet Union
entry |3 pages
Spain
entry |4 pages
Spanish and Iberoromance Languages
entry |7 pages
Spectral Analysis
entry |3 pages
Speech Acts
entry |4 pages
Speech Perception
entry |3 pages
Speech Processing
entry |2 pages
Speech Processing (Neurobiology)
entry |3 pages
Speech Production
entry |3 pages
Speech Production: Neurobiology
entry |2 pages
Speech Synthesis
entry |2 pages
Sprachbund
entry |3 pages
Sranan
entry |4 pages
Sri Lanka Portuguese
entry |2 pages
Standard Language
entry |2 pages
Story Grammar
entry |2 pages
Structural Interference
entry |2 pages
Structuralism
entry |3 pages
Stylistics
entry |7 pages
Sumerian
entry |3 pages
Swadesh, Morris
entry |4 pages
Swedish and Scandinavian Languages
entry |3 pages
Sweet, Henry
entry |2 pages
Switch-Reference
entry |3 pages
Switzerland
entry |2 pages
Syllable: Structure
entry |4 pages
Syntactic Categories
entry |3 pages
Syntactic Typology
entry |5 pages
Syntax
letter 1073T|64 pages
entry |2 pages
Taboo
entry |4 pages
Tagalog and Philippine Languages
entry |4 pages
Tamil
entry |3 pages
Tarascan
entry |2 pages
Teaching: Curricula
entry |3 pages
Teaching: Methods
entry |3 pages
Telugu
entry |2 pages
Tense and Aspect Marking
entry |3 pages
Tense: Syntax
entry |4 pages
Tewa and the Kiowa-Tanoan Languages
entry |2 pages
Text Linguistics
entry |3 pages
Text Understanding
entry |4 pages
Thai and Tai Languages
entry |3 pages
Thematic Structure
entry |4 pages
Tibetan
entry |2 pages
Time and Tense
entry |5 pages
Tiv and Tivoid Languages
entry |4 pages
Tocharian
entry |3 pages
Tok Pisin
entry |4 pages
Tone Languages
entry |2 pages
Translation
entry |2 pages
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergeyevich
entry |4 pages
Tuareg and Berber Languages
entry |4 pages
Tungusic
entry |3 pages
Turing, Alan
entry |3 pages
Turkey
entry |4 pages
Typology
letter 1137U|14 pages
entry |3 pages
Udmurt
entry |9 pages
United States
entry |3 pages
Universal Grammar
entry |2 pages
Utterance-Centered Linguistics
letter 1151V|12 pages
entry |2 pages
Variation
entry |4 pages
Vietnamese
entry |3 pages
Visual Word Recognition
entry |2 pages
Voice
entry |4 pages
Vowel Harmony
letter 1163W|32 pages
entry |2 pages
Wackernagel, Jacob
entry |4 pages
Warao
entry |4 pages
Wayampi and Tupi-Guarani Languages
entry |3 pages
Weinreich, Uriel
entry |6 pages
Western Caribbean Creole(s)
entry |3 pages
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
entry |3 pages
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
entry |3 pages
Wolof and Atlantic Languages
entry |3 pages
Word
entry |3 pages
Word Order
entry |2 pages
Word Sense Disambiguation
entry |2 pages
Working Memory
entry |3 pages
Writing Systems
letter 1195Y|10 pages
entry |2 pages
Yémba and the Grassfields Bantu Languages
entry |4 pages
Yiddish
entry |5 pages
Yoruba and Yoruboid Languages
letter 1205Z|6 pages
entry |2 pages
Zipf, George Kingsley
entry |4 pages
Zulu and Southern Bantu Languages
entry |2 pages
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