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Balkans, The Languages of the
Victor A. Friedman
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
The Languages of the Balkans Introduction For most of the 20th century, the geopolitical Balkans were defined as Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania,...
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan
Joachim Mugdan
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Jan Baudouin de CourtenayIntroductionJan Baudouin de Courtenay, also known in Russian as Иван Александрович Бодуэн-де-Куртенэ (Ivan Aleksandrovič Bodu...
Berber Languages and Linguistics
Mena B. Lafkioui
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Berber Languages and LinguisticsIntroductionBerber (aka Tamazight) is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum and counts about forty languages, w...
Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Tej K. Bhatia
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Bilingualism and MultilingualismIntroductionBilingualism and multilingualism is an interdisciplinary and complex field. As is self-evident from the pr...
Biology of Language
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...
Blocking
Franz Rainer
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
BlockingIntroduction“Blocking” is a phenomenon that is characteristic of human language in general, but its precise nature and scope are still controv...
Caddoan Languages
Anthony Grant
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Caddoan Languages Introduction The Caddoan languages were traditionally spoken in various locations in the Great Plains. In his article on Cad...
Caucasian Languages
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...
Causatives
Jurgis Pakerys
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
CausativesIntroductionA causative is a linguistic expression referring to a situation consisting of a certain event and a force responsible for the re...
Celtic Languages
Sìm Innes
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Celtic Languages Introduction Celtic languages constitute one distinct branch of the Indo-European languages. The modern Celtic languages are ...
Celtic Mutations
Pavel Iosad
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Celtic MutationsIntroductionThe term “initial consonant mutations” refers to a set of alternations that affect word-initial segments (overwhelmingly, ...
Chomsky, Noam
Terje Lohndal, Howard Lasnik
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Noam ChomskyIntroductionAvram Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia on 7 December 1928. His father, William Chomsky, was a noted Hebrew scholar. Choms...
Chumashan Languages
Timothy Henry-Rodriguez
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Chumashan LanguagesIntroductionChumashan languages were spoken in and near the coastal areas of Central and Southern California; villages were from as...
Classifiers
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
ClassifiersIntroductionClassifiers and noun classes are basic kinds of noun categorization devices. They fall into several subtypes depending on the m...
Clauses, Relative
Mark de Vries
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Relative Clauses Introduction Relative clauses are subordinate clausal modifiers. Semantically, they contain a variable that is somehow relate...
Clinical Linguistics
Louise Cummings
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Clinical LinguisticsIntroductionClinical linguistics is the application of linguistic concepts, theories, and methods to the study of language disorde...
Cognitive Linguistics
Vyvyan Evans
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Cognitive Linguistics Introduction Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language, mind, and sociocultural exp...
Colonial Place Names
Thomas Stolz, Ingo H. Warnke, Jascha de Bloom
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Colonial Place NamesIntroductionColonial place names (= CPNs) constitute a specific category of toponyms, namely the class of place names which are at...
Comparative Reconstruction in Linguistics
Martine Robbeets
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Comparative Reconstruction in LinguisticsIntroductionLinguistic reconstruction is a procedure for inferring an unattested ancestral state of a languag...
Comparative-Historical Linguistics
Joseph Salmons
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Comparative-Historical LinguisticsIntroductionHistorical linguistics is about how and why language changes over time. Comparative linguistics, in the ...
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