Encyclopedia of Linguistics

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Acquisition
Afroasiatic Languages
Altaic Languages
American Indian Languages
Applied Linguistics
Artificial Languages
Australian Languages
Austro-Asiatic Languages
Austronesian Languages
Communication Theory
Computational Linguistics
Dead Languages
Dravidian Languages
Historical Linguistics
History of Linguistics
Indo-European Languages
Isolates (Languages)
Language Contact
Lexicon
Linguistic Approaches
Major Language Families
Morphology
Neurolinguistics
Niger-Congo Languages
North Caucasian Languages
Persons
Phonetics
Phonology
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Pidgins and Creoles
Regions
Semantics
Sign Languages
Sino-Tibetan Languages
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Tai Languages
Typology
Uralic Languages

Acquisition
Acquisition
Acquisition Theories
Bilingual Acquisition
Developmental Stages
Language: Socialization
Second Language: Learning

Afroasiatic Languages
Amharic and Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Arabic
Aramaic
Biblical Hebrew
Coptic Egyptian
Hausa and Chadic Languages
Modern Hebrew
Tuareg and Berber Languages

Altaic Languages
Mongolian
Tungusic

American Indian Languages
Arawak
Carib and Cariban Languages
Chibchan Languages
Dakota and Siouan Languages
Maya and Mayan Languages
Miskito and Misumalpan Languages
Mohawk and Iroquoian Languages
Nahuatl and Uto-Aztecan Languages
Navajo and Athabaskan-Eyak Languages
Nootka and Wakashan Languages
Ojibwe and Algonquian Languages
Okanagan and Salishan Languages
Oto-Manguean Languages
Tarascan
Tewa and Kiowa-Tanoan Languages
Wayampi and Tupí-Guaraní Languages

Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics: Overview
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
Forensic Linguistics
Genre
Language: Planning
Literacy
Professions for Linguists
Proficiency Testing
Reading
Second Language: Teaching
Stylistics
Teaching: Curricula
Teaching: Methods

Artificial Languages
Artificial Languages

Australian Languages
Kayardild and the Tangkic Languages
Murrinh-Patha and Daly Languages
Pintupi and Pama-Nyungan Languages

Austro-Asiatic Languages
Khmer and Mon-Khmer Languages
Vietnamese

Austronesian Languages
Javanese
Malagasy
Malay-Indonesian and Malayic Languages
Maori and Polynesian Languages
Marshallese and Micronesian Languages
Tagalog and Philippine Languages

Communication Theory
Animals and Human Language: Overview
Animals and Human Language: Dolphins
Animals and Human Language: Parrots
Animals and Human Language: Primates
Biosemiotics
Interpreting
Paralanguage
Translation

Computational Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Finite State Morphology
Generation
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Representation
Machine Translation
Parsing
Speech Processing
Text Understanding
Visual Word Recognition
Word Sense Disambiguation

Dead Languages
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Greek
Gothic
Hittite
Latin
Middle English
Middle (Classical) Japanese
Old Chinese
Old Church Slavic
Old English
Old French
Old High German
Old Irish
Old Japanese
Old Norse
Old Tibetan
Sanskrit
Sumerian
Tocharian

Dravidian Languages
Tamil
Telugu

Historical Linguistics
Analogical Change
Archaeology and Language
Comparative Method
Dialectology
Etymology
Evolution of Language: Overview
Evolution of Language: Cognitive Preadaptations
Evolution of Language: Physical Preadaptations
Evolution of Language: Social Preadaptations
Genetic Relationship
Great Vowel Shift
Language: Change
Long-Range Comparison
Migration and Language

History of Linguistics
Arabic Traditional Grammar
Babylonian Traditional Grammar
Chinese and Japanese Traditional Grammar
European Traditional Grammar
History of Linguistics: Overview
Indian Traditional Grammar
Modern Linguistics

Indo-European Languages
Albanian
Armenian
Baltic Languages
Celtic Languages
Dutch
English
Farsi
French
German
Hindi-Urdu
Italian
Modern Greek
Polish and West Slavic Languages
Romanian
Russian and East Slavic Languages
Serbo-Croatian and South Slavic
Sindhi
Spanish and Ibero-Romance Languages
Swedish and Scandinavian Languages
Yiddish

Isolates (Languages)
Ainu
Basque
Burushaski
Japanese
Korean
Warao
Zuni

Language Contact
Bilingual Mixed Languages
Bilingualism
Endangered Languages
Language: Contact - Overview
Language: Death
Lexical Borrowing
Official Language Selection
Pidgins and Creoles
Sprachbund
Structural Interference

Lexicon
Clause Lexemes
Grammaticalization
Idiomaticity
Lexicalization
Lexicon: Overview

Linguistic Approaches
Communication Theory
Computational Linguistics
Connectionism
Corpus Linguistics
Field Methods
Functional Approaches
Generative Grammar
Grammar Theories
Grammar, Traditional
Historical Linguistics
Mathematical Linguistics
Morphology
Neurolinguistics
Philology
Philosophy of Language
Phonetics
Phonology
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Rhetoric and Linguistics
Semantics
Semiotics
Sociolinguistics
Structuralism
Syntax
Typology
Writing Systems

Major Language Families
Afroasiatic
Altaic
Austro-Asiatic
Austronesian
Dravidian
Eskimo-Aleut
Hmong and Miao-Yao
Indo-European: Slavic
Indo-European: Germanic
Indo-European: Indo-Iranian
Indo-European: Overview
Indo-European: Romance
Khoisan
Niger-Congo
Nilo-Saharan
Pama-Nyungan
Semitic Languages
Sino-Tibetan

Morphology
Affixation
Agreement
Compounding
Empty Morphemes
Gender: Class Marking
Inflection and Derivation
Morpheme
Number Marking
Reduplication
Sandhi
Switch Reference
Tense and Aspect Marking
Vowel Harmony
Word

Neurolinguistics
Aphasia
Brain Organization and Auditory Pathways
Clinical Linguistics
Dyslexia
Lateralization and Handedness
Localization of Linguistic Information
Reading Impairment
Second Language: Acquisition
Speech Processing (Neurobiology)
Speech Production (Neurobiology)
Working Memory (Neurobiology)

Niger-Congo Languages
Akan and Nyo Languages
Bambara, Mandenkan, and the Mande Languages
Ewe and Gbe Languages
Igbo and Igboid Languages
Moore and the Gur Languages
Tiv and Tivoid Languages
Wolof and Atlantic Languages
Yemba and Grassfields Bantu Languages
Yoruba and Yoruboid Languages
Zulu and Southern Bantu Languages

North Caucasian Languages
Georgian and Caucasian Languages
North-West Caucasian Languages

Persons
Austin, John Langshaw
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Ignacy Niecislaw
Benveniste, Emile
Bever, Thomas
Bloomfield, Leonard
Boas, Franz
Bopp, Franz
Bresnan, Joan
Brugmann, Karl
Bühler, Karl
Chafe, Wallace
Chao, Yuen Ren
Chomsky, Noam
Clark, Eve V.
Emeneau, Murray Barnson
Ferguson, Charles Albert
Fillmore, Charles
Firth, John Rupert
Fishman, Joshua A.
Fromkin, Victoria Alexandra
Givón, Talmy
Greenberg, Joseph Harold
Grice, H. Paul
Grimm, Jacob
Gumperz, John Joseph
Haas, Mary Rosamond
Hale, Kenneth
Halle, Morris
Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood
Harris, Zellig Sabbetai
Haugen, Einar
Hjelmslev, Louis
Hockett, Charles F.
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Hymes, Dell Hathaway
Jakobson, Roman
Jespersen, Otto
Jones, Sir William
Labov, William
Ladefoged, Peter
Lakoff, George
Langacker, Ronald
Lehmann, Winfred Philipp
Leskien, August
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Lyons, John
Malkiel, Yakov
Martinet, André
McCawley, James D.
Meillet, Antoine
Montague, Richard
Nida, Eugene
Panini
Paul, Hermann
Peirce, Charles
Pike, Kenneth
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Reichenbach, Hans
Russell, Bertrand
Sapir, Edward
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Searle, John
Slobin, Dan Isaac
Swadesh, Morris
Sweet, Henry
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergejevic
Turing, Alan
Wackernagel, Jacob
Weinreich, Uriel
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Zipf, George Kingsley

Phonetics
Acoustic Phonetics
Aerodynamics of the Vocal Tract
Anatomy of the Articulatory System
Anatomy of the Auditory System
Assimilation and Dissimilation
Manner of Articulation
Phonetic Transcription
Place of Articulation
Prosody
Sound Wave Analysis
Spectral Analysis
Speech Synthesis

Phonology
Assimilation and Dissimilation
Epenthesis and Syncope
Feature Theory
Metathesis
Natural Class
Phoneme
Rules versus Constraints
Syllable: Structure
Tone Languages

Pragmatics
Code-Switching
Coherence in Discourse
Conversation Analysis
Deixis
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Strategies
Irony
Politeness
Relevance in Discourse
Speech Acts
Taboo
Text Linguistics
Utterance-Centered Linguistics

Psycholinguistics
Age and Language
Handwriting
Speech Perception
Speech Production

Pidgins and Creoles
Cape Verdean Creole
Chinese Pidgin English
Chinese Pidgin Russian
Chinook Jargon
Crioulo, Gulf of Guinea
Crioulo, Upper Guinea
Fanakalo
Gullah
Haitian Creole
Hawaiian Creole English
Hiri Motu
Indian Ocean Creole
Juba and Nubi Arabic
Kituba
Krio
Kriol (Roper-Bamyili Creole)
Lesser Antillean French Creole
Lingua Franca
Louisiana Creole
Papiamento
Philippine Spanish Creoles
Pitcairnese
Saramaccan
Western Caribbean Creole
Sranan
Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole
Tok Pisin

Regions
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Balkans
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Caribbean
China
France
Germany
Great Britain
India
Israel
Italy
Mexico
New Guinea
Nigeria
Pacific
Scandinavia
South Africa
Southeast Asia
Soviet Union
Soviet Union: Successor States
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
United States

Semantics
Ambiguity
Causation
Color Terms
Compositional Semantics
Context
Coordination
Definiteness
Figurative Speech
Genericity
Idioms
Kinship Terms
Meaning
Metaphor
Metonymy
Modification
Naming
Onomatopoeia
Plurality
Proper Nouns
Quantification
Reference
Register
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Sign Relationship
Time and Tense

Sign Languages
American Sign Language
British Sign Language
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
Japanese Sign Language
Signed Languages

Sino-Tibetan Languages
Burmese
Chinese: Mandarin
Tibetan

Sociolinguistics
African American Vernacular English
Courtroom Discourse
Diglossia
Emotion and Language
Ethnicity and Language
Ethnography of Communication
Euphemism
Gender and Language
Identity and Language
Ideology and Language
Mass Media and Language
Medicine and Language
Personality and Language
Sociolect
Standard Language
Variation Theory

Syntax
Anaphora
Aspect
Auxiliaries
Case
Clause
Configurationality
Constituency Test
Deep Structure
Determiner
Empty Categories
Focality
Function Words
Grammatical Function
Iconicity
Long-Distance Dependency
Mood
Noun Incorporation
Phrase Structure
Possessives
Predication
Proforms
Questions
Serial Verb Constructions
Story Grammar
Syntactic Category
Tense: Syntax
Thematic Structure
Universal Grammar
Voice
Word Order

Tai Languages
Thai and Tai Languages

Typology
Morphological Typology
Semantic and Discourse Typology
Syntactic Typology

Uralic Languages
Finnish and Finnic Languages
Hungarian and Ugric Languages
Udmurt