Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject and its subdisciplines.
Mark Aronoff is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Provost at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Janie Rees-Miller is Chair of the Modern Languages Department and Director of the English as a Second Language Program at Marietta College, Ohio
List of Contributors
ix
Preface
xiii
Origins of Language
1
(18)
Andrew Carstairs-Mccarthy
Languages of the World
19
(24)
Bernard Comrie
Writing Systems
43
(38)
Peter T. Daniels
The History of Linguistics
81
(24)
Lyle Campbell
Historical Linguistics
105
(25)
Brian D. Joseph
Field Linguistics
130
(20)
Pamela Munro
Linguistic Phonetics
150
(30)
John Laver
Phonology
180
(33)
Abigail Cohn
Morphology
213
(25)
Andrew Spencer
The Lexicon
238
(27)
D. A. Cruse
Syntax
265
(30)
Mark C. Baker
Generative Grammar
295
(24)
Thomas Wasow
Functional Linguistics
319
(18)
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Typology
337
(32)
William Croft
An Introduction to Formal Semantics
369
(25)
Shalom Lappin
Pragmatics: Language and Communication
394
(34)
Ruth Kempson
Discourse Analysis
428
(18)
Agnes Weiyun He
Linguistics and Literature
446
(20)
Nigel Fabb
First Language Acquisition
466
(22)
Brian Macwhinney
Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: One Person with Two Languages
488
(24)
Vivian Cook
Multilingualism
512
(21)
Suzanne Romaine
Natural Sign Languages
533
(30)
Wendy Sandler
Diane Lillo-Martin
Sociolinguistics
563
(19)
Florian Coulmas
Neurolinguistics
582
(26)
David Caplan
Computational Linguistics
608
(29)
Richard Sproat
Christer Samuelsson
Jennifer Chu-Carroll
Bob Carpenter
Applied Linguistics
637
(10)
Janie Rees-Miller
Educational Linguistics
647
(17)
James Paul Gee
Linguistics and Reading
664
(9)
Rebecca Treiman
Clinical Linguistics
673
(10)
David Crystal
Forensic Linguistics
683
(9)
Roger W. Shuy
Translation
692
(12)
Christoph Gutknecht
Language Planning
704
(10)
Frank Anshen
Bibliography
714
(60)
Index
774
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