Encyclopedia of Linguistics

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A
Acoustic Phonetics
Acquisition
Acquisition Theories
Aerodynamics of the Vocal Tract
Affixation
African American Vernacular English
Afroasiatic
Age and Language
Agreement
Ainu
Akan and Nyo Languages
Albanian
Algeria
Altaic
Ambiguity
American Sign Language
Amharic and Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Analogical Change
Anaphora
Anatomy of the Articulatory System
Anatomy of the Auditory System
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Greek
Animals and Human Language 1: Overview
Animals and Human Language 2: Dolphins
Animals and Human Language 3: Parrots
Animals and Human Language 4: Primates
Aphasia
Applied Linguistics: Overview
Arabic
Arabic Traditional Grammar
Aramaic
Arawak
Archaeology and Language
Armenian
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Languages
Aspect
Assimilation
Assimilation and Dissimilation
Austin, J. L. (John Langshaw)
Australia
Austria
Austro-Asiatic
Austronesian
Auxiliaries
Avestan

B
Babylonian Traditional Grammar
Balkans
Baltic Languages
Bambara, Mandenkan and the Mande languages
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua
Basque
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecislaw
Belgium
Benveniste, Emile
Bever, Thomas G.
Bilingual Acquisition
Bilingual Mixed Languages
Bilingualism
Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics: Birds
Biosemiotics: Insects
Biosemiotics: Mammals
Biosemiotics: Primates
Bloomfield, Leonard
Boas, Franz
Body Language, see Paralanguage
Bopp, Franz
Brain Organization and Auditory Pathways
Bresnan, Joan
British Sign Language
Brugmann, Karl
Bühler, Karl
Burmese
Burushaski

C
Canada
Cape Verde Creole
Carib and Carib Languages
Caribbean
Case
Causality
Celtic Languages
Chafe, Wallace
Chao, Yuan Ren
China
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese and Japanese Traditional Grammar
Chinese Pidgin English
Chinese Pidgin Russian
Chinook Jargon
Chomsky, Noam
Clark, Eve V.
Clausal Lexemes
Clause
Clinical Linguistics
Code-Switching
Coherence in Discourse
Color Terms
Communication Theory
Comparative Method
Compositional Semantics
Compounding
Computational Linguistics
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Comrie, Bernard
Configurationality
Connectionism
Constituency Test
Context
Conversation Analysis
Coordination
Coptic
Corpus Linguistics
Courtroom Discourse
Crioulo (Gulf of Guinea)
Crioulo (Upper)

D
Dakota and Siouan Languages
Deep Structure
Definiteness
Deixis
Determiner
Developmental Stages
Dialectology
Diglossia
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Strategies
Dravidian
Dutch
Dyslexia

E
Emeneau, Murray B.
Emotion and Language
Empty Categories
Empty Morphemes
Endangered Languages
English
Epenthesis and Syncope
Eskimo-Aleut
Ethnicity and Language
Ethnography of Communication
Etymology
Euphemism
European Traditional Grammar
Evolution of Language 1: Overview
Evolution of Language 2: Cognitive Preadaptations
Evolution of Language 3: Physical Preadaptations
Evolution of Language 4: Social Preadaptations
Ewe and Gbe Languages

F
Fanakalo
Farsi
Feature Theory
Ferguson, Charles Albert
Field Methods
Figurative Speech
Fillmore, Charles
Finite-State Morphology
Finnish and Finnic Languages
Firth, John Rupert
Fishman, Joshua A.
Focality
Forensic Linguistics
France
French
Fromkin, Victoria
Function Words
Functional Approaches

G
Gender and Language
Gender: Class Marking
Generation
Generative Grammar
Genericity
Genetic Relationship
Genre
Georgian and Caucasian Languages
German
Germany
Givón, Talmy
Gothic
Grammar (Traditional)
Grammar Theories
Grammatical Function
Grammaticalization
Great Britain
Great Vowel Shift
Greek
Greenberg, Joseph
Grice, H. Paul
Grimm, Jacob
Guaymí and Chibchan Languages
Gullah
Gumperz, John Joseph

H
Haas, Mary
Haitian Creole
Hale, Ken
Halle, Morris
Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood)
Handwriting
Harris, Zellig
Haugen, Einar
Hausa and Chadic Languages
Hawaiian Creole English
Hebrew: Biblical
Hebrew: Modern
Hindi-Urdu
Hiri Motu
Historical Linguistics
History of Linguistics: Overview
Hittite
Hjelmslev, Louis
Hmong and Miao-Yao Languages
Hockett, Charles
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Hungarian and Ugric Languages
Hymes, Dell H.

I
Iconicity
Identity and Language
Ideology and Language
Idiomaticity
Idioms
Igbo and Igboid Languages
India
Indian Ocean Creole
Indian Traditional Grammar
Indo-European 1: Overview
Indo-European 2: Germanic
Indo-European 3: Indo-Iranian
Indo-European 4: Romance
Indo-European 5: Slavic
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
Inflection and Derivation
Information Retrieval
Interpreting
Irony
Israel
Italian
Italy

J
Jakobson, Roman
Japanese
Japanese Sign Language
Javanese
Jespersen, Otto
Jones, Sir William
Juba and Nubi Arabic

K
Kayardild and the Tangkic Languages
Khmer and Mon-Khmer Languages
Khoisan
Kinship Terms
Kituba
Knowledge Representation
Korean
Krio
Kriol (Roper-Bamyili Creole)

L
Labov, William
Ladefoged, Peter
Lakoff, George
Langacker, Ronald
Language: Change
Language: Contact - Overview
Language: Death
Language: Planning
Language: Socialization
Lateralization and Handedness
Latin
Lehmann, Winfred Philipp
Leskien, August
Lesser Antillean French Creole
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Lexical Borrowing
Lexicalization
Lexicon: Overview
Lingua Franca
Linguistic Anthropology
Literacy
Localization of Linguistic Information
Long-Distance Dependency
Long-Range Comparison
Louisiana Creole
Lyons, John

M
Machine Translation
Malagasy
Malay-Indonesian and Malayic Languages
Malkiel, Yakov
Manner of Articulation
Maori and Polynesian Languages
Marshallese and Micronesian Languages
Martinet, André
Mass Media and Language
Mathematical Linguistics
Maya and Mayan Languages
McCawley, James D.
Meaning
Medicine and Language
Meillet, Antoine
Metaphor
Metathesis
Metonymy
Mexico
Middle (Classical) Japanese
Middle English
Migration and Language
Miskito and Misumalpan Languages
Mixe and Mixe-Zoquean Languages
Modern Linguistics
Modification
Mohawk and Iroquoian Languages
Mongolian
Montague, Richard
Mood
Moore and the Gur Languages
Morpheme
Morphological Typology
Morphology
Murrinh-Patha and Daly Languages

N
Nahuatl and Uto-Aztecan Languages
Naming
Natural Class
Navajo and Athabaskan-Eyak Languages
Neurolinguistics
New Guinea
Nida, Eugene
Niger-Congo
Nigeria
Nilo-Saharan
Nootka and Wakashan Languages
North-West Caucasian Languages
Noun Incorporation
Number Marking

O
Official Language Selection
Ojibwe and Algonquian Languages
Okanagan and Salishan Languages
Old Chinese
Old Church Slavic
Old English
Old French
Old High German
Old Irish
Old Japanese
Old Norse
Old Tibetan
Onomatopoeia
Oto-Manguean Languages

P
Pacific
Pama-Nyungan
Panini
Papiamento
Paralanguage
Parsing
Paul, Hermann
Peirce, Charles
Personality and Language
Philippine Spanish Creoles
Philology
Philosophy of Language
Phoneme
Phonetic and Phonological Typology
Phonetic Transcription
Phonetics
Phonology
Phrase Structure
Pidgins and Creoles
Pike, Kenneth
Pintupi and Pama-Nyungan Languages
Pitcairnese
Place of Articulation
Plurality
Polish and West Slavic Languages
Politeness
Possessives
Pragmatics
Predication
Professions for Linguists
Proficiency Testing
Proforms
Proper Nouns
Prosody
Psycholinguistics

Q
Quantification
Quechua and Andean Equatorial Languages
Questions
Quine, W.V. (Willard Van Orman)

R
Reading
Reading Impairment
Reduplication
Reference
Register
Reichenbach, Hans
Relevance in Discourse
Rhetoric and Linguistics
Romanian
Rules versus Constraints
Russell, Bertrand
Russian and East Slavic Languages

S
Sandhi
Sanskrit
Sapir, Edward
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Saramaccan
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Scandinavia
Searle, John
Second Language: Acquisition
Second Language: Learning
Second Language: Teaching
Semantic and Discourse Typology
Semantics
Semiotics
Semitic Languages
Serbo-Croatian and South Slavic Languages
Serial Verb Constructions
Sign Relationship
Signed Languages
Sindhi
Sino-Tibetan
Slobin, Dan Isaac
Sociolect
Sociolinguistics
Sound Wave Analysis
South Africa
South America: Argentina
South America: Brazil
Southeast Asia
Soviet Union
Soviet Union: Successor States
Spain
Spanish and Ibero-Romance Languages
Spectral Analysis
Speech Acts
Speech Perception
Speech Processing
Speech Processing (Neurobiology)
Speech Production
Speech Production (Neurobiology)
Speech Synthesis
Sprachbund
Sranan
Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole
Standard Language
Story Grammar
Structural Interference
Structuralism
Stylistics
Sumerian
Swadesh, Morris
Swedish and Scandinavian Languages
Sweet, Henry
Switch Reference
Switzerland
Syllable: Structure
Syntactic Category
Syntactic Typology
Syntax

T
Taboo
Tagalog and Philippine Languages
Tamil
Tarascan
Teaching: Curricula
Teaching: Methods
Telugu
Tense and Aspect Marking
Tense: Syntax
Tewa and Kiowa-Tanoan Languages
Text Linguistics
Text Summarization
Text Understanding
Thai and Tai Languages
Thematic Structure
Tibetan
Time and Tense
Tiv and Tivoid Languages
Tocharian
Tok Pisin
Tone Languages
Translation
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergejevic
Tuareg and Berber Languages
Tungusic
Turing, Alan
Turkey
Turkish and Turkic Languages
Typology

U
Udmurt
United States
Universal Grammar
Utterance-Centered Linguistics

V
Variation Theory
Vietnamese
Visual Word Recognition
Voice
Vowel Harmony

W
Wackernagel, Jacob
Warao
Wayampi and Tupí-Guaraní Languages
Weinreich, Uriel
Western Caribbean Creole
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wolof and Atlantic Languages
Word
Word Order
Word Sense Disambiguation
Working Memory (Neurobiology)
Writing Systems

Y
Yemba and Grasslands Bantu Languages
Yiddish
Yoruba and Yoruboid Languages

Z
Zipf, George Kingsley
Zulu and Southern Bantu Languages
Zuni

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