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Entry Term

Subentry Term

Author

Affiliation

Abbreviation

 

John Algeo

 

Ache-Chamic languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Acoustic Phonetics

 

Francis J. Nolan

University of Cambridge

Acquisition of Language

Phonology

Lise Menn

University of Colorado, Boulder

Acquisition of Language

Syntax

Cynthia Fisher

University of Illinois

Acquisition of Language

Meanings and forms

Eve V. Clark

Stanford University

Acquisition of Language

Communicative Competence

Elinor Ochs

University of California, Los Angeles

Acquisition of Language

Critical Periods

Elissa Newport

University of Rochester

Acquisition of language

Second-language acquisition

Michael H. Long

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Adamawa Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Adamawa-Ubangi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Address

 

Jennifer Coates

University of Surrey Roehampton

Adelbert Range Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Adelung, Johann Christoph

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Adjacency Constraint

 

Frans Plank

 

Adjectives

 

Beatrice Warren

Lunds Universitet, Sweden

Adjunction

 

Ian G. Roberts

University of Stuttgart

Admiralty Islands Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Adpositions

 

Martin Haspelmath

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Affixation

 

Wolfgang Dressler

Universität Wien

African-American Vernacular English

 

John Rickford

Stanford University

African Languages

 

Bernd Heine

Universität zu Köln

Afroasiatic Languages

 

Andrzej Zaborski

 

Afroasiatic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Agrammatism

 

Jean-Luc Nespoulous

Université de ToulouseLe Mirail

Agreement

An overview

Greville G. Corbett

University of Surrey

Agreement

Noun classification

David A. Zubin

State University of New York, Buffalo

Akkadian

 

Giorgio Buccellati

University of California, Los Angeles

Alacalufan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Albanian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Alexia and Agraphia

 

Rhonda B. Friedman

Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences

Alexandrian Grammarians

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Algic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Algonquian Languages

 

Ives Goddard

Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution

Algonquian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Altaic Languages

 

Stefan Georg

 

American Sign Language (ASL)

 

Sherman Wilcox

University of New Mexico

Amharic

 

M. Lionel Bender

Southern Illinois University

Amto-Musan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Amuzgoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Analogy

 

Paul Kiparsky

Stanford University

Anaphora and Binding

 

Joseph Aoun

University of Southern California

Anaphora

Formal Grammar

Joseph Aoun

University of Southern California

Anaphora

Logical Semantics

Stephen Neale

Rutgers University

Anatolian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Andamanese Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Angan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Anomia

 

Arthur Wingfield

Brandeis University

Anthropological linguistics

An overview

Jane Hill

University of Arizona

Anthropological linguistics

Early history in North America

Regna Darnell

University of Western Ontario

Anthropological Linguistics

Social and cultural approaches to Language

Donald Brenneis

University of California, Santa Cruz

Aphasia

An overview

Nina Dronckers

VA Northern California Health Care System

Aphasia

Comparative Aphasiology

Lise Menn

University of Colorado, Boulder

Apo Duat Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Apollonius Dyscolus

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Applied linguistics

[Old Overview, plus some history]

Robert B. Kaplan

 

Apraxia

 

Ennio De Renzi

Università degli Studi di Modena

Arabic

 

Wolfdietrich Fischer

Universität Erlangen-Nrnberg

Aramaic

 

Robert D. Hoberman

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Arandic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Arauan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Araucanian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Arawakan Languages

 

Desmond C. Derbyshire

 

Arawakan

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Areal Linguistics

Overview

Colin P. Masica

University of Chicago-retired

Areal Linguistics

Geographical Distribution of Linguistic Features

Johanna Nichols

University of California, Berkeley

Aristotle

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Armenian

 

John A. C. Greppin

Cleveland State University

Articulatory Phonetics

 

W. J. Hardcastle

Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

Aru

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Arutani-Sape Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Aryan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Aslian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Aspect

 

Joan L. Bybee

University of New Mexico

Athabaskan Languages

 

Eung-Do Cook

University of Calgary

Atlantic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Austin, John

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Australian Languages

 

R. M. W. Dixon

La Trobe University

Austro-Asiatic Languages

 

Gerard Diffloth

Cornell University

Austro-Asiatic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Austronesian Languages

 

Ross Clark

University of Auckland

Austronesian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Autolexical Syntax

 

Jerrold Sadock

University of Chicago

Autosegmental Phonology

 

George N. Clements

 

Awera Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Aymaran Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Baagandi

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Babar

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bacon, Francis

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Bakhtin, Mikhail

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Bali-Sasak Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Balkan Languages

 

Brian D. Joseph

Ohio State University

Baltic Languages

 

Jules F.Levin

University of California, Riverside

Bambara-Maninka-Jula

 

Christopher Culy

University of Iowa

Bandjalang

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bantoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bantu Languages

 

Benji Wald

University of California, Los Angeles

Barbacoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Baric Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Barito Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bashiic-Central Luzon-North Mindoro Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Basque

 

Rudolf P. G. De Rijk

Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecisaw

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Bayono-Awbono Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Beboid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bengali

 

M. H. Klaiman

University of Minnesota

Benue-Congo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Benveniste, Émile

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Berber Languages

 

Maarten Kossmann

 

Berber

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Berta Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bilingualism and multilingualism

An overview

Kenji Hakuta

Stanford University

Bilingualism and multilingualism

Bilingual education

Jim Cummins

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto

Bilingualism and multilingualism

Multilingualism

John Edwards

St. Francis Xavier University

Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Language localization in bilingualism

Loraine K. Obler

Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

Bima-Sumba Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Biu-Mandara Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bloomfield, Leonard

 

Robert A. Hall, Jr.

 

Boas, Franz

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Bodic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bodish Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bodo-Garo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bopp, Franz

 

K. M. Hayward

University of London

Borneo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Borrowing

An overview

Einar Haugen

 

Borrowing

Loanword phonology

Ellen Broselow

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Bougainville Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bréal, Michel

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Brugmann, Karl

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Bühler, Karl

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Bulgarian

 

Howard I. Aronson

University of Chicago

Bunaban Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bungku-Mori Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Bungku-Tolaki languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Buraffan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Burarran

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Burmese

 

Julian K. Wheatley

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Burmese-Lolo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Caddoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Cahuapanan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Cariban Languages

 

B. J. Hoff

Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Case

Overview

Ferenc Kiefer

Research Institute of Linguistics of HAS, Budapest

Case

Case Theory

Juan Uriagereka

University of Maryland, College Park

Case

Case Alignment

Mark Durie

University of Melbourne

Categorial Grammar

 

Richard Oehrle

 

Caucasian Languages

 

B. G. Hewitt

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Causation in Language Change

 

Hans Henrich Hock

 

Causative

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

C-Command

 

Hilda Koopman

University of California, Los Angeles

Celtic Languages

 

Donald MacAulay

University of Glasgow

Central American Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central and South New Guinean Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central"Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central-Eastern Oceanic languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Gur Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Indo-Aryan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Malayo-Polynesian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Maluku Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Philippine Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Pacific

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Sudanic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Central Sulawesi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chadic Languages

 

Paul Newman

Indiana University

Chamorro

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chapacuran Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chiapanec-Mangue Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chibchan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chimakuan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chinantecan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chinese

 

Charles N. Li

University of California, Santa Barbara

Choco Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Choiseul Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chon Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chrysippus

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Chumash Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Clause

An overview

Suzanne Kemmer

Rice University

Clause

Clause-combining constructions

Janine L. Scancarelli

Folger Levin and Kahn LLP, San Francisco

Clause

Complementation

Michael Noonan

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Clitic Positioning

 

Stephen R. Anderson

Yale University

Clitics

An overview

Arnold M. Zwicky

Stanford University

Clitics

Pronominal clitics

Hagit Borer

University of Southern California

Coahuiltecan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Coarticulation and Timing

 

Patricia A. Keating

University of California, Los Angeles

Code Switching

 

P. Gardner-Chloros

Birkbeck College, London

Cognitive Grammar

 

Michel Achard

Rice University

Cognitive Science

 

William Frawley

George Washington University

Comparative Method

 

Sara E. Kimball

University of Texas, Austin

Complementation

 

Paul Gorrell

 

Componential analysis

 

A. E. Backhouse

Hokkaido University, Japan

Compounding

 

Jindrich Toman

University of Michigan

Computer-assisted instruction

 

Carol Chapelle

Iowa State University

Computational Linguistics

An overview

Karen Spärck Jones

Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Computational Linguistics

Architectures

Karen Spärck Jones

Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Computational Linguistics

Generation

Gerard Kempen

Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Computational Linguistics

Word-Sense Ambiguity

Philip Resnik

University of Maryland, College Park

Computational Linguistics

Part of Speech Tagging and Phrasal Chunking

Eric Brill

Microsoft Research

Computational Linguistics

Grammar Formalisms

Stuart M. Shieber

Harvard University

Computational Linguistics

Pragmatics and Discourse

C. Raymond Perrault

SRI International Offices

Computational Linguistics

Semantics and Knowledge Representation

Lenhart K. Schubert

University of Rochester

Computational Linguistics

Interfaces

Branimir K. Boguraev

 

Computational Linguistics

Applications of Language Technology

Judith Klavans

Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University

Computational Morphology

 

Kimmo Koskenniemi

Helsingin Yliopisto/Hesingfors Universitet

Computational Phonology

 

Steven Bird

University of Pennsylvania

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot, Abbé de

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Connectionism

 

Paul Smolensky

Johns Hopkins University

Construction Grammar

 

Charles J. Fillmore

University of California, Berkeley

Contrastive analysis

 

Carl James

 

Contrastive rhetoric

 

Robert B. Kaplan

 

Control

 

James McCloskey

University of California, Santa Cruz

Conversion

 

Dieter Kastovsky

Universität Wien

Coordination

 

Grant Goodall

University of Texas, El Paso

Corpus Processing

 

Geoffrey Leech

University of Lancaster

Critical linguistics

 

Norman Fairclough

University of Lancaster

Croce, Benedetto

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Cross River Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Cuneiform

 

Miguel Civil

Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Cushitic Languages

 

Hans-Jurgen Sasse

Universität zu Köln

Cushitic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Czech and Slovak

 

David Short

University College, London

Daly Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Dani-Kwerba Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Decipherment

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Defoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Deixis

 

Stephen Levinson

 

Deletion

 

Anne Lobeck

Western Washington University

Dementia and Language

 

Loraine K. Obler

Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

Derivational Morphology

 

Woflgang Motsch

 

Developmental Language Disorders

An overview

Susan Curtiss

University of California, Los Angeles

Dialectology

 

W. Nelson Francis

Brown University

Djeragan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Diglossia

 

Marilyn Martin-Jones

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Diminutives

 

Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi

 

Diogenes of Babylonia

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Dionysius Thrax

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Discourse

An overview

Wallace Chafe

University of California, Santa Barbara

Discourse

Narrative in Conversation

Charlotte Linde

 

Discourse

Transcription

Jane A. Edwards

Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California

Discourse

Critical Discourse Analysis

Ruth Wodak

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Discourse

Discourse and Interactional Sociolinguistics

Deborah Tannen

Georgetown University

Discourse

Conversation analysis

Don H. Zimmerman

University of California, Santa Barbara

Discourse Markers

 

Deborah Schiffrin

Georgetown University

Djamindjungan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Donatus, Aelius

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Dravidian Languages

 

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California

Dutch

 

Jan G. Kooij

Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Dyangadi

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Dyribalic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Dyslexia

 

Maryanne Wolf

Elliott Pearson School, Tufts University

East Bird's Head Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Central Indo-Aryan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Central Sulawesi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Chadic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Eastern Outer Islands

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Fijian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Fijian"Polynesian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Indo-Aryan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Malayo-Polynesian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Mon-Khmer Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East New Guinea Highlands Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Papuan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Sudanic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

East Trans-New Guinea Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Edoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Educational linguistics

 

Bernard Spolsky

Bar-Ilan University

Egyptian

 

Antonio Loprieno

Universität Basel

Ekoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Elamite

 

Erica Reiner

University of Chicago

Eleman Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ellipsis

 

Tanya Reinhart

Tel Aviv University

Emergentist Approaches to Language

 

Brian MacWhinney

Carnegie Mellon University

Endangered Languages

 

Leanne Hinton

University of California, Berkeley

English

 

Edward Finegan

University of Southern California

Enggano

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Eskimo-Aleut Languages

 

Lawrence D.Kaplan

University of Alaska

Ethnography of Speaking

 

Joel Sherzer

University of Texas, Austin

Ethnopoetics

 

Dell Hymes

University of Virginia

Ethnosemantics

 

Eugene S. Hunn

University of Washington

Etymology

 

Eric P. Hamp

 

Evolution and Language

 

Terrence Deacon

Boston University

Fieldwork

An overview

Regna Darnell

University of Western Ontario

Fieldwork

Fieldwork and linguistic theory

Judith L. Aissen

University of California, Santa Cruz

Filters

 

Robert Freidin

Princeton University

Finnish

 

Fred Karlsson

Heisingin Yliopisto/Helsingfors Universitet

Firth, John Robert

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

'First Grammarian'

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Flinders Island

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Formal Grammar

 

David Lightfoot

University of Maryland, College Park

Form-meaning relationships

 

Igor A. Mel'cuk

Université de Montréal

Formosan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Formulaic Speech

 

Andrew Pawley

 

French

 

Martin Harris

University of Essex

Fula

 

D. W. Arnott

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Functional Linguistics

An overview

Sandra Thompson

University of California, Santa Barbara

Functional Linguistics

Emergent grammar

Paul J. Hopper

Carnegie Mellon University

Functional Linguistics

Representation

Brian MacWhinney

Carnegie Mellon University

Functional Linguistics

Iconicity

John Haiman

Macalester College

Functional Linguistics

Usage-based grammar

Suzanne Kemmer

Rice University

Fur Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Galgadungic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Gapun Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Garawa

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Geelvink Bay Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammar

 

Gerald Gazdar

University of Sussex

Generative morphology

 

Sergio Scalise

Università degli Studi di Bologna

Generative Phonology

 

Sharon Inkelas

University of California, Berkeley

Georgian

 

Alice C. Harris

Vanderbilt University

German

 

John A. Hawkins

University of Southern California

Germanic Languages

 

Albert L. Lloyd

University of Pennsylvania

Gesner (Gessner), Conrad

 

Anna Morpurgo

Somerville College, Oxford

Giimbiyu

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Gilliéron, Jules

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Gogodala-Suki Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Gorontalo-Mongondic languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Government

 

Mamoru Saito

 

Gradation

 

Paul Kent Andersen

Linköpings Universitet, Sweden

Grammaticalization

 

Paul J. Hopper

Carnegie Mellon University

Grammatical Relations

 

Luigi Burzio

Johns Hopkins University

Grammatical Tagging and Parsing

 

Eric Brill

Microsoft Research

Greek

 

Brian D. Joseph

Ohio State University

Greenberg, Joseph H.

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Grice, H. Paul

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Grimm, Jacob

 

K. M. Hayward

University of London

Guahiban Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Guaranian Languages

 

Robert A. Dooley

 

Gujarati

 

P. J. Mstry

California State University, Fresno

Gulf Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Gumbainggiric

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Gunwingguan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Gur Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Guugu Yimidhirr

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Hale, Kenneth

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Harakmbet Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Harris, James

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Harris, Zellig S.

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Hausa

 

Paul Newman

Indiana University

Heads

 

Jacob Hoeksema

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Hebrew

Ancient Hebrew

Richard C. Steiner

Yeshiva University

Hebrew

Modern Hebrew

Ruth A. Berman

Tel Aviv University

Herder, Johann Gottfried

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Hidden Markov Models

 

Hermann Ney

RWTH Aachen-University of Technology

Hindi

 

Yamuna Kachru

University of Illinois, Urbana-Chainpaign

Historical Linguistics

An overview

Sara E. Kimball

University of Texas, Austin

Historical Linguistics

Classification by "Descent"

M. E. Kropp Dakubu

University of Ghana

Historical Linguistics

Culture history and historical linguistics

Calvert Watkins

Harvard University

Historical Linguistics

Methods: Mathematical

Sheila Embleton

York University

Historical Linguistics

Methods: Computational

Donald Ringe

University of Pennsylvania

Historical Linguistics

Methods: Textual

Sara E. Kimball

University of Texas, Austin

Historical Linguistics

Obsolescence, neologism, and replacement

Henry Hoenigswald

 

Historical Linguistics

Relative chronology

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Historical Linguistics

Typology and universals

Paul J. Hopper

Carnegie Mellon University

History of Linguistics

An overview

Pierre Swiggers

Katolieke Universiteit Leuven

History of Linguistics

Ancient World: Babylonian Tradition

Piotr Michalowski

University of Michigan

History of Linguistics

Ancient World: Ancient India

Rosane Rocher

University of Pennsylvania

History of Linguistics

Ancient World: Ancient Greece and Rome

R. H. Robins

 

History of Linguistics

Eastern Traditions: Chinese Tradition

Goran Malmqvist

Institute for Oriental Languages, University of Stockholm

History of Linguistics

Eastern Traditions: Japanese Tradition

Roy Andrew Miller

University of Washington

History of Linguistics

Eastern Traditions: Jewish Tradition

Raphael Loewe

 

History of Linguistics

Eastern Traditions: Arab Tradition

Kees Versteegh

Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: Early Middle Ages

Vivien Law

Trinity College, Cambridge

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: Medieval Scholastic Grammar

Michael A. Covington

University of Georgia

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: The Renaissance

W. Keith Percival

 

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Pierre Swiggers

Katolieke Universiteit Leuven

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: Comparative-Historical Linguistics

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: Structuralism

Giulio Lepschy

 

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: The Prague School

Josef Vachek

 

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: The London School

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

History of Linguistics

Western Traditions: American Structuralism

John G. Fought

 

History of Linguistics

Generative Grammar

Frederick J. Newmeyer

University of Washington

Prague School

 

Rosanna Sornicola

Università Federico II, Naples

History of the Field

 

Peter Strevens

 

Hittite

 

Jaan Puhvel

University of California, Los Angeles

Hjelmslev, Louis

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Hmong-Mien Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Hokan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Huavean Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Humboldt, Wilhelm von

 

Paul R. Sweet

Michigan State University

Humor and Language

 

Victor Raskin

 

Hungarian

 

Daniel Abondolo

University of London

Huon-Finisterre Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Hurrian and Urartian

 

Gene Gragg

Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Idomoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Igbo

 

Kay Williamson

University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Igboid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ijoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Incorporation

 

Mark Baker

Rutgers University

Indo-Aryan Languages

 

George Cardona

University of Pennsylvania

Indo-European Languages

 

Calvert Watkins

Harvard University

Indo-Iranian Languages

 

George Cardona

University of Pennsylvania

Inflection

 

Peter H. Matthews

St. John's College, Cambridge

Information Structure

Information flow

Wallace Chafe

University of California, Santa Barbara

Information structure

Informational and rhetorical structure

Ellen F. Prince

University of Pennsylvania

Information Theory

 

Robin Clark

University of Pennsylvania

Inheritance

 

Janet H. Randall

Northeastern University

Inland Gulf Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Institutional Linguistics

Overview of Institutional Discourse Analysis

Heidi E. Hamilton

Georgetown University

Institutional Linguistics

Law and language

Elizabeth Mertz

American Bar Foundation

Institutional Linguistics

Medicine and Language

Paula A. Treichler

 

Institutional Linguistics

Language and Business

Yuling Pan

The US Census Bureau

Institutional Linguistics

Language and Media

Colleen Cotter

Georgetown University

Institutional Linguistics

Classroom-based Research in Second-Language Acquisition

Joann Crandall

 

Institutional Linguistics

Classroom-based research in second language acquisition

Patsy M. Lightbown

TESL Centre, Concordia University

Institutional Linguistics

Psychotherapy and Language

Robin Lakoff

University of California, Berkeley

Interjections

 

Richard A. Rhodes

University of California, Berkeley

Interlanguage

 

Michael Sharwood Smith

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

International Phonetic Association

 

M. K. C. MacMahon

University of Glasgow

Intonation

 

Janet Pierrehumbert

Northwestern University

Iranian Languages

 

John R. Payne

University of Manchester

Iroquoian Languages

 

Marianne Mithun

University of California, Santa Barbara

Italian

 

Nigel Vincent

University of Manchester

Italic Languages

 

Robert Coleman

University of Cambridge

Iwaidjan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Jakobson, Roman

 

Morris Halle

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Japanese

 

Masayoshi Shibatani

Kobe University, Japan

Jaqi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Jarawan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Javanese

 

Elinor C. Horne

Dartmouth College

Javanese Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Jespersen, Otto

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Jivaroan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Jones, Sir William

 

Garland Cannon

Texas A&M University

Kadai Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kaili-Pamona Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kainji Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kalamian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kala Lagaw Ya

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kam-Sui Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kannada

 

Hariold Schiffman

University of Pennsylvania

Karen Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Karnic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Katukinan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kaure Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kayagar Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kayan-Kenyah Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Keresan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Khmer

 

Gerard Diffloth

Cornell University

Khoisan Languages

 

Tom Güldemann

 

Kiowa-Tanoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kiranti Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kolopom Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Komuz Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Konyak Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kordofanian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Korean

 

Nam-Kil Kim

University of Southern California

Kru Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kuki-Chin Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kuliak Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kurdish

 

Ernest McCarus

University of Michigan

Kutubuan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kwa Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Kwomtari-Baibai Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Lampungic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Land Dayak Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Language Attitudes

 

Howard Giles

University of California, Santa Barbara

Language Change

Phonological change

Theodora Bynon

 

Language Change

Semantic change

Elizabeth Traugott

Stanford University

Language Change

Syntactic change

Anthony Kroch

University of Pennsylvania

Language Change

Sociohistorical causes

Rex Wallace

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Language Change

Ancestry and descent

Henry Hoenigswald

 

Language for Specific Purposes

 

John M. Swales

University of Michigan

Language Planning

An overview

Michael Clyne

Monash University

Languages of the World

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Language Testing

 

Lyle F. Bachman

University of California, Los Angeles

Laragiyan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Lardil

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Latin

 

Robert G. G. Coleman

University of Cambridge

Learnability

Mathematical aspects

Geoffrey Pullum

University of California, Santa Cruz

Learnablity

Learning Theory and Aspects

Bruce Tesar

Rutgers University

Left May Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Leonhard Schultze Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Levels of Representation

 

Jan Koster

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Lexemes

 

Mark Aronoff

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Lexical-Functional Grammar

 

Annie Zaenen

Xerox Palto Alto Research Center, Europe

Lexical Organization

 

Daniel P. Flickinger

 

Lexical Phonology

An overview

Geert E. Booij

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Lexical Phonology

Morpheme-structure constraints

R. Armin Mester

University of California, Santa Cruz

Lexical Phonology

Morphophonemics

Edmund Gussmann

Uniwersytet Gdanski, Poland

Lexicography

 

Robert Ilson

 

Lexicon

An overview

Stephen R. Anderson

Yale University

Lexicon

Form-Meaning Relationships.

Igor A. Mel'cuk

Université de Montréal

Lexicon

Formal grammar

Rolf Noyer

University of Pennsylvania

Limilngan-Wulna

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Lingala

 

Salikoko Mufwene

University of Chicago

Linguistic relativity

Language and Cognition: Linguistic Relativity in Modern Perspective.

Stephen Levinson

 

Linguistics and Literature

Overview: Language and Literature

Richard D. Cureton

University of Michigan

Linguistics and Literature

Stylistics

Richard D. Cureton

University of Michigan

Linguistics and Literature

Rhetoric and literature

Steven Mailloux

University of California, Irvine

Linguistics and Literature

Pragmatics and literature

Ann Banfield

University of California, Berkeley

Linguistics and Literature

Metaphor

Samuel R. Levin

Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

Linguistics and Literature

Semiotics and literature

Floyd Merrell

 

Linguistics and Literature

Language of prose fiction

Roger Fowler

 

Linguistics and Literature

Language of poetry

Richard D. Cureton

University of Michigan

Linguistics and Literature

Language of drama

Jonathan Culpeper

 

Linguistics and Literature

Language and literary History

John Stephens

Macquarie University

Linguistics and Literature

Poetics

C. J. Van Rees

 

Linguistic relativity

World view and language

Philip K. Bock

University of New Mexico

Literacy

Overview

Shirley Brice Heath

Stanford University

Literacy

Cognitive aspects

Ageliki Nicolopoulou

Lehigh University

Literacy

Sociolinguistic aspects

Deborah Tannen

Georgetown University

Literacy

Applied linguistic aspects

David H. Bendor-Samuel

 

Literary and Linguistic Computing

 

Susan Hockey

University College, London

Locke, John

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Logical Form

 

Jane Grimshaw

Rutgers University

Lower Mamberambo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Loyalty Islands Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Lule-Vilela Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Maban Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Machine Translation

 

Margaret King

Université de Genève

Macro-Ge Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Madang Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Madurese languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mairasi-Tanahmerah Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Maku Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Malayalam

 

K. P. Mohanan

National University of Singapore

Malay and Indonesian

 

D. J. Prentice

 

Malayic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Malayo-Polynesian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mamfe Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mande Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mangerrian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Maran Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Marathi

 

Rajeshwari Vuay Pandharipande

 

Maric Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Marind Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Markedness

An overview

Mary-Louise Kean

University of California, Irvine

Markedness

Markedness in phonology

Diana Archangeli

University of Arizona

Markham Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Martinet, André

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Masa Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mascoian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mataco-Guaicuru Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mathematical Linguistics

An overview

Geoffrey Pullum

University of California, Santa Cruz

Mathematical Linguistics

Generative capacity

Emmon Bach

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mathematical Linguistics

Automata theory and the Chomsky Hierarchy

David Weir

University of Sussex

Mathematical Linguistics

Context-free languages

Geoffrey Pullum

University of California, Santa Cruz

Mathematical Linguistics

Finite-state languages

D. Terence Langendoen

University of Arizona

Mathematical Linguistics

Mildly context-sensitive languages

Aravind K. Joshi

University of Pennsylvania

Mathematical Linguistics

Recognition: Complexity

Eric Sven Ristad

Mnemonic Technology, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Mathematical Linguistics

Recognition: Speech Recognition

Roger K. Moore

Malvern Hills Science Park

Mathematical Linguistics

Recognition: OCR

András Kornai

Chief Scientist, Metacarta Inc.

Mathesius, Vilem

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Mayan Languages

 

Lyle Campbell

University of Canterbury

Mbara Island

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

McCawley

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Meillet, Antoine

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Mek Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Meso-American Languages

 

Lyle Campbell

University of Canterbury

Meso Melanesian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Meso Philippine languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Metaphor and semantics

 

George Lakoff

University of California, Berkeley

Metarules

 

Ewan Klein

 

Metrical Phonology

 

Bruce Hayes

University of California, Los Angeles

Micronesian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mikir-Meithei Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Milne Bay-Central Province Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Minahasan languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Minimalist Program

 

Norbert Hornstein

University of Maryland, College Park

Minorities and Language Planning

 

Allison D'anglejan

 

Mirish Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Misumalpan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mixe-Zoquean Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mixtecan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Modality

 

Johan Van Der Auwera

Universiteit Antwerp UIA

Modistae

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Moklen languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mongodow-Gorontalic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mongolic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mongolic Languages

 

Robert L. Binnick

Scarborough College, University of Toronto

Monic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Mon-Khmer

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Montague Grammar

 

Barbara Abbott

Michigan State University

Mood

 

Joan L. Bybee

University of New Mexico

Morpheme

 

Peter H. Matthews

St. John's College, Cambridge

Morphology

An overview

Wolfgang Dressler

Universität Wien

Morphology

Morphology and phonology

Bill Darden

University of Chicago

Morphology

Morphology and syntax

Arnold M. Zwicky

Stanford University

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

 

Brai B. Kachru

 

Muna-Buton Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Munda Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Muruwari

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Muskogean Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Na-Dené Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Naga Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nahuatl

 

Frances Karttunen

 

Nambiquaran Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'A'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'B'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'C'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'D'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'E'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'F'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'G'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'H'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'I'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'J'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'K'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'L'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'M'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'N'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'O'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'P'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'Q'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'R'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Narrow Bantu 'S'

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Natural Morphology

 

Marianne Kilani-Schoch

Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Natural Phonology

 

Patricia Donegan

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Negation

 

John R. Payne

University of Manchester

Neogrammarians

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Nepali

 

Manindra K. Verma

University of Wisconsin

Neurolinguistics

An overview

Lise Menn

University of Colorado, Boulder

Neurolinguistics

Lateralization of language

Harry A. Whitaker

Northern Michigan University

Neurolinguistics

Neural structures

David Caplan

Massachusetts General Hospital

Neurolinguistics

FMRI

Peter Hagoort

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

New Britain Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

New Caledonia Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

New Georgia Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

New Guinea Languages

 

William A. Foley

University of Sydney

New Ireland-Tolai Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ngarinyeric-Yithayithic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nicobarese Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Niger-Congo Languages

 

John Bendor-Samuel

 

Nilo-Saharan Languages

 

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Institut für Afrikanistik der Universität zu Köln

Nilotic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nimboran Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nonverbal communication

 

Mary Ritchie Key

University of California, Irvine

Nor-Pondo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North American Languages

 

David S. Rood

University of Colorado, Boulder

North and Central Vanuatu Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North Bantoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North Bomberai

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North Caucasian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Northeast Borneo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Northern Philippine languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North Indo-Aryan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North Luzon Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North Mon-Khmer Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

North Trans-New Guinea Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Northwest Indo-Aryan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Northwest Sumatra"Barrier Island languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nouns

 

Leonard Talmy

State University of New York, Buffalo

Number

 

Robert Beard

Bucknell University

Numerals

 

James R. Hurford

University of Edinburgh

Nungish Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nupoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nuristani Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Nyulnyulan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Objects

 

Johan Van Der Auwera

Universiteit Antwerp UIA

Obsolescent Languages

 

Nancy C. Dorian

 

Oceanic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Omotic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Optimality Theory

An overview

John J. McCarthy

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Optimality Theory

Phonology

Alan Prince

Rutgers University

Optimality Theory

Syntax

Geraldine Legendre

Johns Hopkins University

Origins

 

Lang Wang

 

Oto-manguean Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Oto-pamean Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Paezan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Palawano Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Palauan

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Pali

 

K. R. Norman

University of Cambridge

Palyu

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Paman Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Pama-Nyungan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Panini

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Panoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Papuan Tip

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Paradigms

 

Jaap Van Marle

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Paragrammatism

 

Andre Roch Lecours

Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier, Montréal

Parasitic Gaps

 

Heles Contreras

University of Washington

Parsing

Computational

Stephen G. Pulman

Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Parsing

Semantic

Yorick Wilks

University of Sheffield

Parsing

Psycholinguistic

Colin Phillips

University of Maryland, College Park

Parts of Speech

 

Paul Schachter

 

Pashto

 

D. N. Mackenzie

 

Passy, Paul Édouard

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Pathology of Language

 

Paul Fletcher

 

Paul, Hermann

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Pauwasi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Peba-Yaguan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Pedagogical Grammar

 

William E. Rutherford

University of Southern California

Pedagogical Linguistics

 

Christopher Brumfit

 

Peirce, Charles Sanders

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Penutian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Percolation

 

Rochelle Lieber

University of New Hampshire

Persian

 

Gernot L. Windfuhr

University of Michigan

Philosophy of Language

An overview

Scott Soames

Princeton University

Philosophy of Language

Names and natural kinds

Bernard W. Kobes

Arizona State University

Philosophy of Language

Propositions

Ali Akhtar Kazmi

University of Calgary

Philosophy of Language

Temporality

Nathan Salmon

University of California, Santa Barbara

Philosophy of Language

Descriptions

Delia Graff

Princeton University

Philosophy of Language

Explanation in linguistics

Kim Sterelny

Victoria University of Wellington

Phoneme

 

John J. McCarthy

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Phonemic Systems

 

Ian Maddieson

University of California, Los Angeles

Phonetics

An overview

Peter Ladefoged

University of California, Los Angeles

Phonetics

History of the field

John Kelly

University of York

Phonetics

Phonetic transcription

Peter Roach

University of Reading

Phonetics

Phonetic universals

Ian Maddieson

University of California, Los Angeles

Phonological Derivations

Cycle

Joan Mascaro

 

Phonological Derivations

Rule-ordering in phonology

Stephen R. Anderson

Yale University

Phonological Features

 

Morris Halle

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Phonological Processes

Assimilation

Norval Smith

Universiteit Amsterdam

Phonological Processes

Dissimilation

John Alderete

Rutgers University

Phonological Processes

Metathesis

Juliette Blevins

 

Phonological Processes

Long-distance processes

Moira Yip

 

Phonology

An overview

John J. McCarthy

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Phonology

American structuralist phonology

Michael Kenstowicz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Phonology

European structuralist phonology

Linda Waugh

University of Arizona

Phonology

Prosodic phonology

Stephen R. Anderson

Yale University

Phrase Structure

 

Peter Sells

Stanford University

Pidgins and Creoles

 

John Rickford

Stanford University

Pike, Kenneth Lee

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Plato

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Platoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Polish

 

Gerald Stone

 

Polynesian Languages

 

Niko Besnier

Victoria University of Wellington

Polynesian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Polysynthesis

 

Mark Baker

Rutgers University

Popolocan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Port Royal

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Portuguese

 

Stephen Parkinson

Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Oxford

Pott, August Friedrich

 

Theodora Bynon

 

Power and Language

 

Roger Fowler

 

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

 

Scott Soames

Princeton University

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Pragmatics: Implicature

Laurence Horn

Yale University

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Pragmatics: Presupposition

Laurence Horn

Yale University

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Pragmatics: Speech acts

Robert M. Harnish

University of Arizona

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Pragmatics: Cooperative principle

Keith Allan

Monash University

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Pragmatics: Applied pragmatics

Gabriele Kasper

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Contextual Semantics: Indexicals

Mark Richard

Tufts University

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Contextual Semantics: Domain of Quantification

Jason Stanley

University of Michigan

Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics

Context and quantification

Zoltan Szabo

Cornell University

Predicate Nominals and Adjectives

 

Alan Timberlake

University of California, Berkeley

Predication

 

Guglielmo Cinque

Università degli Studi di Venezia

Prepositions and Postpositions

 

Johan Van Der Auwera

Universiteit Antwerp UIA

Prescriptive Grammar

 

Lesley Milroy

University of Michigan

Principles and Parameters

 

David Pesetsky

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Priscian

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Pronouns

An overview

Charles J. Fillmore

University of California, Berkeley

Pronouns

Pronominals

Dominique Sportiche

University of California, Los Angeles

Psycholinguistics

An overview

Willem Levelt

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Psycholinguistics

Comprehension

Michael K. Tanenhaus

University of Rochester

Psycholinguistics

Production

Herbert Clark

Stanford University

Psycholinguistics

Mental lexicon

William Marslen-Wilson

 

Psycholinguistics

Approaches to neurolinguistics

Shari R. Baum

McGill University

Psycholinguistics

Pragmatics and conversation

Herbert Clark

Stanford University

Punan-Nibong languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Punjabi

 

Tej K. Bhatia

Syracuse University

Quechuan Languages

 

Willem F. H. Adelaar

Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Questions

 

Edith A. Moravcsik

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Ramu Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Rask, Rasmus

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Reading Research

 

David E. Eskey

University of Southern California

Reanalysis Rules

 

Luigi Rizzi

Università degli Studi di Siena

Reconstruction

Internal reconstruction

Roger Lass

 

Reconstruction

Semantic reconstruction

Paul Friedrich

University of Chicago

Reconstruction

Syntactic reconstruction

Gary B. Holland

University of California, Berkeley

Reconstruction

Stylistic reconstruction

Calvert Watkins

Harvard University

Recoverability

 

Guglielmo Cinque

Università degli Studi di Venezia

Reduplication

 

Edith A. Moravcsik

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Register and Style

 

Jenny Cheshire

Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

Rejang-Baram Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Rejang

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Relational Grammar and Arc Pair Grammar

 

David M. Perlmutter

 

Relative Clauses

 

Christian Lehmann

Philosophische Fakultät, Erfurt

Remote Oceanic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ritual Language

 

John W. Du Bois

University of California, Santa Barbara

Robins, R. H.

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Romance Languages

 

Suzanne Fleischman

 

Rotuman-Fijian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Rumanian

 

Graham Mallinson

 

Russian

 

Roland Sussex

Centre for Language Teaching, Research University of Queensland

Saharan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

St. Matthias

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Salishan Languages

 

M. Dale Kinkade

University of British Columbia

Salivan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Saluan languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sama-Bajaw Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sanctius Brocensis, Franciscus

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Sangir-Minahasan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sangiric languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sanskrit

 

Madhav M. Deshpande

University of Michigan

Santa Cruz Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Santa Isabel Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sapir, Edward

 

Fred Eggan

University of Chicago

Sarmi-Yotafa Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Saussure, Ferdinand de

 

Giulio Lepschy

 

Scaliger, Joseph Justus

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Scaliger, Julius Caesar

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Scandinavian Languages

 

Einar Haugen

 

Schizophrenia and Language

 

Andre Roch Lecours

Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier, Montréal

Schleicher, August

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Schlegel, (Karl Wilhelm) Friedrich

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Schuchardt, Hugo

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Schuchardt, Hugo

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Scientific Nomenclature

 

Bjorn H. Jernudd

 

Scripts, Frames, and Schemas

 

Susan Hoyle

 

Segments

 

Alan Prince

Rutgers University

Semantic Change

 

Elizabeth Traugott

Stanford University

Semantics

An overview

Keith Allan

Monash University

Semantics

Sense, reference, denotation, extension, and intension

Keith Allan

Monash University

Semantics

Connotation

A. E. Backhouse

Hokkaido University, Japan

Semantics

Properties and relationships

James R. Hurford

University of Edinburgh

Semantics

Semantic primitives

Anna Wierzbicka

Australian National University

 

Semantics and syntax

William Frawley

George Washington University

Semantics

Prosody and meaning

Alan Cruttenden

University of Manchester

Semantics

Formal semantics

M. J. Cresswell

Massey University

Semantics

Cognitive semantics

Peter Harder

Engelsk Institut, Copenhagen

Semantics

Stereotype semantics

Keith Allan

Monash University

Semantics

Prototype semantics

Linda Coleman

University of Maryland, College Park

Semiotics

 

Greg Urban

University of Pennsylvania

Semitic Languages

 

Robert Hetzron

University of California, Santa Barbara

Semitic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Senagi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sentani Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sentence Phonology

An overview

Elisabeth Selkirk

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sentence Phonology

Juncture and Boundary

Mark Aronoff

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Senufo Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sepik Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sepik-Ramu Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Serbo-Croatian

 

Greville G. Corbett

University of Surrey

Siassi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Siberian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sign language

An overview

Adam Kendon

 

Sign Language

Phonology

Wendy Sandler

University of Haifa

Sinhala

 

James W. Gair

Cornell University

Sinhalese-Maldivian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sino-Tibetan Languages

 

Scott Delancey

University of Oregon

Siouan Languages

 

David S. Rood

University of Colorado, Boulder

Sko Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Slavic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Social Variation

Social dialects

Donna Christian

Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.

Social Variation

Social constructionism

Janet Holmes

Victoria University of Wellington

Sociolinguistics

An overview

Jenny Cheshire

Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

Sociolinguistics

Sociology of language

John Gibbons

University of Sydney

Sociolinguistics

Communicative competence

Muriel Saville-Troike

University of Arizona

Sociolinguistics

Language variation and change

Ralph W. Fasold

Georgetown University

Sociolinguistics

Language and Gender

Sally McConnell-Ginet

Cornell University

Sociolinguistics

Sociohistorical linguistics

Suzanne Romaine

Merton College, Oxford

Somali

 

Douglas Biber

Northern Arizona University

Songhai Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sound symbolism

 

Leanne Hinton

University of California, Berkeley

South American Languages

 

Harriet E. Manelis Klein

 

South Asian Languages

 

Colin P. Masica

University of Chicago-retired

South Bantoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Bird's Head Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Bomberai

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Caucasian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Southeast Asian Languages

 

James Matisoff

University of California, Berkeley

Southeast Maluku Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Southeast Solomons Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Halmahera-West New Guinea Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Indo-Aryan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Mangyan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Mindanao Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Philippine Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Sulawesi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

South Vanuatu Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Southwest Pama-Nyungan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Spanish

 

John N. Green

University of Bradford

Speaker Recognition

 

Francis J. Nolan

University of Cambridge

Specific Language Impairment

 

Susan Curtiss

University of California, Los Angeles

Speech Community

 

Jenny Cheshire

Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

Speech Perception

Phonetic Aspects

Anne Cutler

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Speech Perception

Psycholinguistic aspects

Anne Cutler

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Speech Synthesis

 

Caroline Henton

 

Statistical Linguistics

 

Geoffrey Sampson

University of Sussex

Steinthal, Heymann

 

Anna Morpurgo

Somerville College, Oxford

Stem and Root

 

Mark Aronoff

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Stoics

 

Anna Morpurgo

Somerville College, Oxford

Stratificational Grammar

 

David C. Bennett

University of London

Style

Applied stylistics

Ronald Carter

University of Nottingham

Stylistic Rules

 

Peter Coopmans

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Subcategorization and Selection

 

Jane Grimshaw

Rutgers University

Subjacency

 

Howard Lasnik

University of Connecticut

Subjects

 

Frans Plank

 

Subtiaba-Tlapanec Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sulawesi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sumatra Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sumerian

 

Piotr Michalowski

University of Michigan

Sundic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Sundanese languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Suppletion

 

Igor A. Mel'cuk

Université de Montréal

Swahili

 

Thomas J. Hinnebusch

University of California, Los Angeles

Swadesh, Morris

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Sweet, Henry.

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Syllables

Syllables and stress in phonetics

Ilse Lehiste

Ohio State University

Syllables

Syllables in phonology

Donca Steriade

University of California, Los Angeles

Syntactic Features

 

Jindrich Toman

University of Michigan

Systemic Grammar

 

J. R. Martin

University of Sydney

Tacanan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tagalog

 

Paul Schachter

 

Tagmemics

 

Kenneth L. Pike

Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas

Tai-Kadai Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tai Languages

 

Anthony Diller

Australian National University

Tamanic languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tamil

 

Sanford B. Steever

 

Tangic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Teberan-Pawaian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Telugu

 

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California

Tense

An overview

Osten Dahl

Stockholms Universitet

Tense, Aspect, and Mood

 

Joan L. Bybee

University of New Mexico

Tense

Definition

Joan L. Bybee

University of New Mexico

Tense

Expression

Osten Dahl

Stockholms Universitet

Teor-Kur

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Terminology

 

Anita Nuopponen

University of Vaasa, Finland

Text

An overview

William Frawley

George Washington University

Text

Anthropological aspects

Richard Bauman

Indiana University

Text

Text understanding

Livia Polanyi

FX Palo Alto Laboratory

Text

Applied Aspects: Writing Research

William Grabe

Northern Arizona University

Thai

 

Anthony Diller

Australian National University

Tibetan

 

Kun Chang

University of California, Berkeley

Timor-Alor-Pantar Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Timor-Flores Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Timor

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tivoid Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tiwi

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tocharian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tomini Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tomini-Tolitoli languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Syllables

Phonetics

Ilse Lehiste

Ohio State University

Tone

Phonology

Larry M. Hyman

University of California, Berkeley

Tone

Phonetics

Ilse Lehiste

Ohio State University

Tone

Downstep and downdrift

Mary M. Clark

University of New Hampshire

Torricelli Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Totonacan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Traces

 

Howard Lasnik

University of Connecticut

Trans-Fly-Bulaka River Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Transformations

 

Mark R. Baltin

New York University

Transitivity and Voice

An overview

Suzanne Kemmer

Rice University

Transitivity and Voice

Passive

Masayoshi Shibatani

Kobe University, Japan

Translation and Interpretation

 

Roda P. Roberts

Bilingual Canadian Dictionary Project

Trans-New Guinea Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tree-Adjoining Grammar

 

Anthony Kroch

University of Pennsylvania

Trubetzkoy, Nikolai

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Tucanoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tungusic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Tupian Languages

 

Cheryl J. Jensen

Summer Institute of Linguistics, Belem, Brazil

Turama-Kikorian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Turkic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Turkish

 

Jaklin Kornfilt

Syracuse University

Typography

 

Charles Bigelow

Stanford University

Typology and Universals

 

Suzanne Kemmer

Rice University

Ubangi Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ukaan-Akpes Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ukrainian

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Umbugarla-Ngumbur

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Uralic Languages

 

Juha Janhunen

Helsingin Yliopisto/Hesingfors Universitet

Urdu

 

Anwar S. Dil

United States International University

Uru-Chipaya Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Uto-Aztecan Languages

 

Wick R. Miller

 

Varro, Marcus Terentius

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Verbal Play

 

Joel Sherzer

University of Texas, Austin

Verbs

 

Joan L. Bybee

University of New Mexico

Verner, Karl Adolf

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Viet-Muong Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Vietnamese

 

Dinh-Hoa Nguyen

 

Voice Quality

 

John Laver

Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

Vygotsky, L.S.

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Wackernagel

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Wagaya-Warluwaric

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Wakashan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Waka-Kabic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Wallis, John

 

J. Alan Kemp

 

Warumungu

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

West Barkly Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

West Bomberai Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

West Chadic Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

West Damar

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Western Oceanic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

West Malayo-Polynesian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

West Papuan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Whitney, William Dwight

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Whorf, Benjamin Lee

 

John B. Carroll

 

Wide Grassfields Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

WILLIAMS SYNDROME AND DOWN SYNDROME: COGNITIVE CONSTRAINTS ON LANGUAGE

 

Sarah Paterson

Institute of Child Health, London

Wiradhuric

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Wissel Lakes-Kemandoga Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Witotoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Wolof

 

Stephane Robert

CNRS-LLACAN, Villejuif, France

Word-and-Paradigm Model

 

Peter H. Matthews

St. John's College, Cambridge

Word Grammar

 

Richard Hudson

University College, London

Word Order

 

Matthew Dryer

State University of New York, Buffalo

Words

 

E. M. Uhlenbeck

Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Worimi

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Wororan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Wotu-Wolio languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Writing and Written Language

An overview

Per Linell

Linköpings Universitet, Sweden

Writing and Written Language

Written Language and Linguistic Theory

Per Linell

Linköpings Universitet, Sweden

Writing and Written Language

Writing systems

Florian Coulmas

Gerhard Mercator University

Writing and Written Language

Writing versus speech

Wallace Chafe

University of California, Santa Barbara

Writing and Written Language

Orthography: An overview

Jean-Pierre Jaffre

LEAPLE-CNRS

Writing and Written Language

Orthography: planning

Marianne Mithun

University of California, Santa Barbara

Writing and Written Language

Neurological Aspects

Ovid Tzeng

National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

Wundt, Wilhelm

 

Anna Morpurgo Davies

Somerville College, Oxford

Yalandyic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yanomam Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yanyuwa

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yapese

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yeniseian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yidinic

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yiwaidjan

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yoruba

 

Douglas Pulleyblank

University of British Columbia

Yucatec Mayan

 

John S. Robertson

Brigham Young University

Yugambal

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yuin

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yuin-Kuric Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yukaghir Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yukian Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Yuulngu Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Zamucoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Zaparoan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Zapotecan Languages

 

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Zulu

 

George Poulos

University of South Africa