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Fieldwork
Keren Rice
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Fieldwork Introduction When you hear the word “fieldwork,” you probably think of someone going to some remote location to study a language that...
Gender
Jenny Audring
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Gender Introduction Grammatical gender is a feature of nouns, reflected on elements that agree with them. In nouns, gender is an invariable lex...
Genealogical Classification
Søren Wichmann
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Genealogical Classification Introduction In spite of a long tradition of linguists dealing empirically with the classification of languages, g...
Generative Syntax
Knut Tarald Taraldsen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Generative Syntax Introduction Generative syntax is a major subfield of generative grammar, an outgrowth of American structuralism in its insis...
Gestures
Adam Kendon
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Gestures Introduction This article, after listing recent general works and surveys, is organized first to reflect the historical development of...
Grammaticalization
D. Gary Miller
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Grammaticalization Introduction The essence of grammaticalization is the evolution of a lexical category to a grammatical one or of a hybrid/fu...
History of the English Language
Ans van Kemenade, Bettelou Los
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
History of the English Language Introduction The study of the history of the English language has a long and rich tradition, starting with a r...
IPA
John H. Esling
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
IPA Introduction The acronym IPA can refer either to the International Phonetic Association or to the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Inte...
Language Documentation
Peter Austin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Language Documentation Introduction Language documentation, also known as documentary linguistics, is the subfield of linguistics that deals w...
Language, Acquisition of
Eve V. Clark
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Acquisition of Language Introduction First language acquisition—the study of how children acquire their first language(s)––is the branch of psy...
Language, Biology of
Cedric Boeckx
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Biology of Language Introduction Although they both focus on issues that have deep roots in human thought, linguistics and biology are relative...
Languages of Africa
Tucker Childs
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Languages of Africa Introduction The study of African languages has a history dating back to the 17th century when Europeans first began explo...
Languages of the Americas, Indigenous
Marianne Mithun
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Indigenous Languages of the Americas Introduction The languages indigenous to North, Middle, and South America are both numerous and diverse. B...
Languages of the World
William R. Leben
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Languages of the World Introduction Scholarly work on the languages of the world is aimed in three main directions: genetic classification, typ...
Languages, Afroasiatic
Bonny Sands
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Afroasiatic Languages Introduction Afroasiatic languages are found across North Africa and throughout much of East Africa and the Middle East. ...
Languages, Athabaskan
Sharon Hargus
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Athabaskan Languages Introduction The Athabaskan family of languages is or was spoken in primarily three regions: (1) in the interior of Alaska...
Languages, Australian
Claire Bowern
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Australian Languages Introduction At the time of the first European settlement of Australia in 1788, there were approximately 250 distinct lang...
Languages, Caucasian
Marina Chumakina
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Caucasian Languages Introduction Medieval Arab geographers called the Caucasus “a mountain of tongues.” Many diverse languages are spoken in th...
Languages, Endangered
Chris Rogers, Lyle Campbell
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Endangered Languages Introduction Endangered languages are one of the highest priorities in linguistics in the early 21st century and one of th...
Languages, Heritage
Maria Polinsky
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Heritage Languages Introduction Heritage languages are spoken by early bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, whose home language (L1) is seve...
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