Encyclopedia of Linguistics

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Acoustic Phonetics 1000 words
Acquisition 3000 words
Acquisition Theories 2000 words
Aerodynamics of the Vocal Tract 1000 words
Affixation 2000 words
African American Vernacular English 1000 words
Afroasiatic 2000 words
Age and Language 1000 words
Agreement 2000 words
Ainu 2000 words
Akan and Nyo Languages 2000 words
Albanian 2000 words
Algeria 2000 words
Altaic 2000 words
Ambiguity 1000 words
American Sign Language 2000 words
Analogical Change 1000 words
Anaphora 1000 words
Anatomy of the Articulatory System 1000 words
Anatomy of the Auditory System 1000 words
Ancient Egyptian 2000 words
Ancient Greek 3000 words
Animals and Human Language: Dolphins 1000 words
Animals and Human Language: Overview 1000 words
Animals and Human Language: Parrot (Alex) 1000 words
Animals and Human Language: Primates (Koko, Kanzi) 1000 words
Aphasia 1000 words
Applied Linguistics: Overview 1000 words
Arabic 3000 words
Arabic Traditional Grammar 1000 words
Aramaic 2000 words
Arawak 2000 words
Archaeology and Language 1000 words
Armenian 2000 words
Artificial Intelligence 1000 words
Artificial Languages 2000 words
Aspect 1000 words
Assimilation 2000 words
Assimilation and Dissimilation 1000 words
Austin, J. L. (John Langshaw) 1000 words
Australia 2000 words
Austria 2000 words
Austro-Asiatic 2000 words
Austronesian 2000 words
Auxiliaries 1000 words
Avestan 2000 words

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Babylonian Traditional Grammar 1000 words
Balkans 3000 words
Baltic Languages 2000 words
Bambara and Mande Languages 2000 words
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua 1000 words
Basque 2000 words
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecislaw 1000 words
Belgium 2000 words
Benveniste, Emile 1000 words
Bever, Thomas G. 1000 words
Bierwisch, Manfred 1000 words
Bilingual Acquisition 1000 words
Bilingual Mixed Languages 1000 words
Bilingualism 1000 words
Biosemiotics 2000 words
Biosemiotics: Birds 1000 words
Biosemiotics: Insects 1000 words
Biosemiotics: Mammals 1000 words
Biosemiotics: Molecular Signals 1000 words
Biosemiotics: Primates 1000 words
Bloomfield, Leonard 1500 words
Boas, Franz 1000 words
Bopp, Franz 1000 words
Brain Organization and Auditory Pathways 2000 words
Bresnan, Joan 1000 words
British Sign Language 2000 words
Brugmann, Karl 1000 words
Burmese 2000 words
Burushaski 2000 words
Bühler, Karl 1000 words

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Canada 2000 words
Cape Verde Creole 1000 words
Carib and Carib Languages 2000 words
Caribbean 2000 words
Case 1000 words
Causality 1000 words
Celtic Languages 2000 words
Chafe, Wallace 1000 words
Chao, Yuan Ren 1000 words
China 3000 words
Chinese (Mandarin) 3000 words
Chinese and Japanese Traditional Grammar 1000 words
Chinese Pidgin English 1000 words
Chinese Pidgin Russian 1000 words
Chinook Jargon 1000 words
Chomsky, Noam 2000 words
Clark, Eve V. 1000 words
Clark, Herbert 1000 words
Clausal Lexemes 1000 words
Clause 1000 words
Clinical Linguistics 1000 words
Code-switching 1000 words
Coherence of Discourse 1000 words
Color Terms 1000 words
Communication Theory 2000 words
Comparative Method 2000 words
Compositional Semantics 1000 words
Compounding 1000 words
Computational Linguistics 3000 words
Computer Assisted Language Learning 1000 words
Comrie, Bernard 1000 words
Configurationality 1000 words
Connectionism 1000 words
Constituency Test 1000 words
Context 1000 words
Conversation Analysis 1000 words
Coordination 1000 words
Coptic 2000 words
Corpus Linguistics 1000 words
Courtroom Discourse 1000 words
Crioulo (Gulf of Guinea) 1000 words
Crioulo (Upper) 1000 words

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Dakota and Siouan Languages 2000 words
Deep Structure 2000 words
Definiteness 1000 words
Deixis 1000 words
Determiner 1500 words
Developmental Stages 2000 words
Dialectology 1000 words
Diglossia 1000 words
Discourse Analysis 1000 words
Discourse Strategies 1000 words
Dowty, David 1000 words
Dravidian 2000 words
Dutch 3000 words
Dyslexia 1000 words

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Emeneau, Murray B. 1000 words
Emotion and Language 1000 words
Empty Categories 2000 words
Empty Morphemes 1000 words
Endangered Languages 1000 words
English 5000 words
Epenthesis and Syncope 1000 words
Eskimo-Aleut 2000 words
Ethnicity and Language 3000 words
Ethnography of Communication 1000 words
Etymology 1000 words
Euphemism 1000 words
European Traditional Grammar 1000 words
Ewe and Gbe Languages 2000 words

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Fanakalo 1000 words
Farsi 2000 words
Feature Theory 3000 words
Ferguson, Charles Albert 1000 words
Field Methods 1000 words
Figurative Speech 1000 words
Fillmore, Charles 1000 words
Finite-State Morphology 1000 words
Finnish and Finnic Languages 2000 words
Firth, John Rupert 1500 words
Fishman, Joshua A. 1000 words
Focality 1000 words
Fodor, Jerry 1000 words
Forensic Linguistics 1000 words
France 3000 words
French 3000 words
Fromkin, Victoria 1000 words
Function Words 1000 words
Functional Approaches 2000 words

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Garrett, Merrill 1000 words
Gender and Language 2000 words
Gender/Class Marking 1000 words
Generation 1000 words
Generative Grammar 2000 words
Generics 1000 words
Genetic Relationship 1000 words
Genre 1000 words
Georgian and Caucasian Languages 2000 words
German 3000 words
Germany 3000 words
Givón Talmy 1000 words
Gleitman, Lila 1000 words
Goldsmith, John 1000 words
Gothic 2000 words
Grammar (Traditional) 1000 words
Grammar Theories 3000 words
Grammatical Function 1000 words
Grammaticalization 1000 words
Great Britain 3000 words
Great Vowel Shift 1500 words
Greek 2000 words
Greenberg, Joseph 1500 words
Grice, H. Paul 1500 words
Grimm, Jacob 1500 words
Guaymí and Chibchan Languages 2000 words
Gullah (Sea Islands Creole English) 1000 words
Gumperz, John Joseph 1000 words

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Haas, Mary 1000 words
Haitian Creole 1000 words
Hale, Ken 1000 words
Halle, Morris 1500 words
Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood) 1500 words
Handwriting 1000 words
Harris, Zellig 1000 words
Haugen, Einar 1000 words
Hausa and Chadic Languages 2000 words
Hawaiian Creole English 1000 words
Hebrew: Biblical/Tiberian 1500 words
Hebrew: Modern 1500 words
Hindi-Urdu 2000 words
Hiri Motu 1000 words
Historical Linguistics 2000 words
History of Linguistics: Overview 1000 words
Hittite 2000 words
Hjelmslev, Louis 1500 words
Hmong and Miao-Yao Languages 2000 words
Hockett, Charles 1000 words
Howard Lasnik 1000 words
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 1000 words
Hungarian and Ugric Languages 2000 words
Hymes, Dell H. 1000 words

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Iconicity 1000 words
Identity and Language 1500 words
Ideology and Language 1000 words
Idiomaticity 1000 words
Idioms 2000 words
Igbo and Igboid Languages 2000 words
India 5000 words
Indian Ocean Creole 1000 words
Indian Traditional Grammar 1000 words
Indo-European 1: Overview 2000 words
Indo-European 2: Germanic 2000 words
Indo-European 3: Indo-Iranian 1500 words
Indo-European 4: Romance 2000 words
Indo-European 5: Slavic 2000 words
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language 2000 words
Indonesian and Malayan Languages 2000 words
Inflection and Derivation 1000 words
Information Retrieval 2000 words
Integrational Linguistics 2000 words
Interpreting 1000 words
Irony 1000 words
Israel 3000 words
Italian 3000 words
Italy 2000 words
Ivanov, Viacheslaw Vsevolodovich 1000 words

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Jackendoff, Ray 1000 words
Jakobson, Roman 1500 words
Japanese 3000 words
Japanese Sign Language 2000 words
Javanese 2000 words
Jespersen, Otto 1500 words
Jones, Sir William 1000 words
Juba/Nubi Arabic 1000 words

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Kabardian and Northwest Caucasian Languages 2000 words
Katz, Jerrold 1000 words
Kayardild and the Tangkic Languages 2000 words
Kayne, Richard 1000 words
Keresan 2000 words
Khmer & Mon-Khmer Languages 2000 words
Khoisan 2000 words
Kinship Terms 1000 words
Kiparsky, Paul 1000 words
Kituba 1000 words
Knowledge Representation 3000 words
Korean 3000 words
Krio 1000 words
Kriol (Roper-Bamyili Creole) 1000 words

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Labov, William 1500 words
Ladefoged, Peter 1000 words
Lakoff, George 1000 words
Lamb, Sidney 1000 words
Langacker, Ronald 1000 words
Language Change 2000 words
Language Contact: Overview 1000 words
Language Death 1000 words
Language Planning 1000 words
Language Socialization 1000 words
Lateralization and Handedness 1000 words
Latin 3000 words
Lehmann, Winfred Philipp 1000 words
Leskien, August 1000 words
Lesser Antillean French Creole 1000 words
Levi-Strauss, Claude 2000 words
Lexical Borrowing 1000 words
Lexicalization 1000 words
Lexicography 1000 words
Lexicon: Overview 1000 words
Lingua Franca (Medieval Pidgin) 1000 words
Linguistic Anthropology 2000 words
Linguistic Evolution: Cognitive Preadaptations 1000 words
Linguistic Evolution: Overview 1000 words
Linguistic Evolution: Physical Preadaptations 1500 words
Linguistic Evolution: Social Preadaptations 1000 words
Literacy 2000 words
Localization of Linguistic Information 1000 words
Long-Distance Dependency 1000 words
Long-Range Comparison 1000 words
Louisiana French Creole 1000 words
Lyons, John 1000 words

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Machine Translation 1000 words
Malagasy 2000 words
Malkiel, Yakov 1000 words
Manner-of-Articulation 2000 words
Maori and Polynesian Languages 2000 words
Marshallese and Micronesian Languages 2000 words
Martinet, André 1500 words
Mass Media and Language 1500 words
Mathematical Linguistics 1000 words
Maya and Mayan Languages 2000 words
McCawley, James D. 1000 words
Meaning 3000 words
Medicine and Language 1000 words
Meillet, Antoine 1500 words
Metaphor 1000 words
Metathesis 1000 words
Metonymy 1000 words
Mexico 2000 words
Middle English 2000 words
Migration and Language 1000 words
Miller, George 1000 words
Miskito & Misumalpan Languages 2000 words
Mixe and Mixe-Zoquean Languages 2000 words
Modern Linguistics 1000 words
Modification 1000 words
Mohawk and Iroquoian Languages 2000 words
Mongolian 2000 words
Montague, Richard 1000 words
Mood 1000 words
Moore and Gur Languages 2000 words
Morpheme 1000 words
Morphological Typology 1500 words
Morphology 2000 words
Murrinh-Patha and Daly Languages 2000 words

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Nahuatl and Uto-Aztecan Languages 2000 words
Naming 2000 words
Natural Class 1000 words
Navajo and Athabaskan-Eyak Languages 2000 words
Neurolinguistics 2000 words
New Guinea 2000 words
New Guinea 2000 words
Nida, Eugene 1000 words
Niger-Congo 2000 words
Nigeria 2000 words
Nilo-Saharan 2000 words
NLP-Grammar 3000 words
Nootka and Wakashan Languages 2000 words
Noun Incorporation 1500 words
Number Marking 1000 words

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Official Language Selection 1000 words
Ohala, John 1000 words
Ojibwe and Algonquian Languages 2000 words
Okanagan & Salishan Languages 2000 words
Old Chinese 2000 words
Old Church Slavic 2000 words
Old English 2000 words
Old French 2000 words
Old High German 2000 words
Old Irish 2000 words
Old Japanese 2000 words
Old Norse 2000 words
Old Tibetan 2000 words
Onomatopoeia 1000 words
Oto-Manguean Languages 2000 words

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Pacific 2000 words
Pama-Nyungan 2000 words
Panini 1000 words
Papiamento 1000 words
Paralanguage 2000 words
Parsing 3000 words
Partee, Barbara 1000 words
Paul, Hermann 1000 words
Peirce, Charles 1000 words
Personality and Language 1000 words
Philippine Spanish Creoles 1000 words
Philology 2000 words
Philosophy of Language 2000 words
Phoneme 2000 words
Phonetic and Phonological Typology 1500 words
Phonetic Transcription 1000 words
Phonetics 2000 words
Phonology 2000 words
Phrase Structure 3000 words
Pidgins and Creoles 2000 words
Pike, Kenneth 1500 words
Pintupi and Pama-Nyungan Languages 2000 words
Pitcairnese 1000 words
Place-of-Articulation 2000 words
Plurality 1000 words
Polish and West Slavic Languages 3000 words
Politeness 1000 words
Possessives 1000 words
Pragmatics 2000 words
Predication 1000 words
Professions for Linguists 1000 words
Proficiency Testing 1000 words
Proforms 1000 words
Proper Nouns 1000 words
Prosody 1000 words
Psycholinguistics 2000 words

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Quantification 3000 words
Quechua and Andean Equatorial Languages 2000 words
Questions 1000 words
Quine, W.V. (Willard Van Orman) 1000 words

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Reading 1000 words
Reading Impairment 1000 words
Reduplication 2000 words
Reference 1000 words
Register 1000 words
Reichenbach, Hans 1000 words
Relevance in Discourse 1000 words
Rhetoric 2000 words
Romanian 2000 words
Rules vs. Constraints 1000 words
Russell, Bertrand 1000 words
Russian and East Slavic Languages 3000 words

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Sandhi 1000 words
Sanskrit 2000 words
Sapir, Edward 1500 words
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 1000 words
Saramaccan 1000 words
Saussure, Ferdinand de 1000 words
Scandinavia 2000 words
Schegloff, Emanuel 1000 words
Searle, John 1000 words
Second Language Acquisition 1000 words
Second Language Learning 2000 words
Second Language Teaching 1000 words
Semantic and Discourse Typology 1500 words
Semantics 2000 words
Semiotics 2000 words
Serbo-Croatian and South Slavic Languages 2000 words
Serial Verb Constructions 1000 words
Sign Relationship 1000 words
Signal Systems 2000 words
Signed Languages 3000 words
Sindhi 2000 words
Sino-Tibetan 2000 words
Slobin, Dan Isaac 1000 words
Sociolect 2000 words
Sociolinguistics 2000 words
Somali and Cushitic Languages 2000 words
Sound Wave Analysis 3000 words
South Africa 2000 words
South America: All but Brazil 3000 words
South America: Brazil 2000 words
Southeast Asia 2000 words
Soviet Union 2000 words
Soviet Union: Successor States 3000 words
Spain 2000 words
Spanish and Ibero-Romance Languages 3000 words
Spectral Analysis 3000 words
Speech Acts 1000 words
Speech Perception 2000 words
Speech Processing 1000 words
Speech Processing (Neurobiology) 1000 words
Speech Production 1000 words
Speech Production (Neurobiology) 1000 words
Speech Synthesis 1000 words
Sprachbund 1000 words
Sranan 1000 words
Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole 1000 words
Standard Language 1000 words
Story Grammar 1000 words
Structural Interference 1000 words
Structuralism 1000 words
Stylistics 2000 words
Sumerian 2000 words
Swadesh, Morris 1000 words
Swedish and Scandinavian Languages 2000 words
Sweet, Henry 1000 words
Switch Reference 1000 words
Switzerland 2000 words
Syllable: Structure 1000 words
Syntactic Category 2000 words
Syntactic Typology 1500 words
Syntax 2000 words

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Taboo 1000 words
Tagalog and Philippine Languages 2000 words
Tamil 2000 words
Tarascan 2000 words
Teaching Curricula 1000 words
Teaching Methods 1000 words
Telugu 2000 words
Tense and Aspect Marking 1000 words
Tense: Syntax 1000 words
Tewa and Tanoan Languages 2000 words
Text Linguistics 1000 words
Text Summarization 1000 words
Text Understanding 1000 words
Thai and Tai Languages 2000 words
Thematic Structure 2000 words
Tibetan 2000 words
Ticuna 2000 words
Tigrinya and Ethiopian Semitic Languages 2000 words
Time and Tense 1000 words
Tiv and Tivoid Languages 2000 words
Tocharian 2000 words
Tok Pisin 1000 words
Tone Languages 2000 words
Translation 1000 words
Traugott, Elizabeth 1000 words
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergejevic 1000 words
Tuareg and Berber Languages 2000 words
Tungusic 2000 words
Turing, A.M. 1000 words
Turkey 2000 words
Turkish and Turkic Languages 3000 words
Typology 2000 words

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Udmurt 2000 words
United States 5000 words
Universal Grammar 1000 words
Uralic 2000 words
Utterance-Centered Linguistics 1000 words

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Variation Theory 1000 words
Vietnamese 2000 words
Visual Word Recognition 1000 words
Voice 1000 words
Vowel Harmony 1500 words

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Wackernagel, Jacob 1000 words
Warao 2000 words
Warlpiri & Ngarga Languages 2000 words
Wayampi and Tupí­‡uaraní Œanguages 2000 words
Weinreich, Uriel 1000 words
Western Caribbean Creole 1000 words
Whorf, Benjamin Lee 1000 words
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1500 words
Wolof and Atlantic Languages 2000 words
Word 2000 words
Word Order 1000 words
Word Sense Disambiguation 1000 words
Working Memory (Neurobiology) 1000 words
Writing Systems 2000 words

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Yemba and Grasslands Bantu Languages 2000 words
Yiddish 2000 words
Yoruba and Yoruboid Languages 2000 words

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Zipf, George Kingsley 1000 words
Zulu and Southern Bantu Languages 2000 words
Zuni 2000 words
Zwicky, Arnold 1000 words







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