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Book SynopsisThe first edition of thisHandbookis built on surveys by well-known figures from around the world and around the intellectual world, reflecting several different theoretical predilections, balancing coverage of enduring questions and important recent work. Those strengths are now enhanced by adding new chapters and thoroughly revising almost all other chapters, partly to reflect ways in which the field has changed in the intervening twenty years, in some places radically. The result is a magnificent volume that can be used for many purposes.David W. Lightfoot,Georgetown University
The Handbook of Linguistics, Second Editionis a stupendous achievement. Aronoff and Rees-Miller have provided overviews of 29 subfields of linguistics, each written by one of the leading researchers in that subfield and each impressively crafted in both style and content. I know of no finer resource for anyone who would wish to be better informed on recent developments in linguis
Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface to the Second Edition xi
Preface to the First Edition xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii
Part I Starting Points 1
1. Origins of Language 3
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
2. Languages of the World 21
Bernard Comrie
3. Typology and Universals 39
William Croft
4. Field Linguistics: Gathering Language Data from Native Speakers 57
Pamela Munro
5. Writing Systems 75
Peter T. Daniels
Part II Theoretical Bases 95
6. The History of Linguistics: Approaches to Linguistics 97
Lyle Campbell
7. Generative Grammar: Rule Systems for Describing Sentence Structure 119
Thomas Wasow
8. Functional Linguistics: Communicative Functions and Language Structure 141
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
Part III Core Fields 159
9. Linguistic Phonetics: The Sounds of Languages 161
John Laver
10. Phonology: Sound Structure 185
Abigail C. Cohn
11. Morphology 211
Andrew Spencer
12. The Lexicon 235
D. A. Cruse
13. Syntax 255
Mark C. Baker
14. Formal Semantics 279
Shalom Lappin
15. Historical Linguistics: Language Change Over Time 299
Brian D. Joseph
Part IV Languages and the Mind 321
16. Neurolinguistics 323
David Caplan
17. Psycholinguistics 345
Kiel Christianson
18. Sign Languages 371
Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin
19. First Language Acquisition 397
Brian MacWhinney
Part V Languages in Use 415
20. Pragmatics: Language and Communication 417
Ruth Kempson
21. Discourse Analysis 445
Agnes Weiyun He
22. Linguistics and Literature 463
Nigel Fabb
23. Linguistic Anthropology and Ethnolinguistics 479
Steven P. Black and Elizabeth A. Falconi
24. Sociolinguistic Theory: Systematic Study of the Social Uses of Language 505
J. K. Chambers
25. Language Variation: Sociolinguistic Variationist Analysis 519
Kirk Hazen
26. Multilingualism 541
Suzanne Romaine
27. Second Language Acquisition: One Person with Two Languages 557
Vivian Cook
Part VI Applications of Linguistics 583
28. Second Language Pedagogy: Where Theory Meets Practice 585
Janie Rees-Miller
29. Educational Linguistics 603
James Paul Gee
30. Linguistics and Reading 617
Rebecca Treiman
31. Language and Law 627
Roger W. Shuy
32. Translation 645
Christoph Gutknecht
33. Language Planning and Policy 655
Kathryn D. Stemper and Kendall A. King
Index 675
