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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...
Finite State Languages
Mans Hulden
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Finite-State Languages Introduction A finite-state language—equivalently “regular language,” “type 3 language,” or “regular set”—belongs to th...
First Language Attrition
Monika Schmid
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
First Language AttritionIntroductionThe term “language attrition” refers to any process by which a language which an individual commands may be restru...
Formulaic Language
Koenraad Kuiper
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Formulaic LanguageIntroduction“Formulaic language” is a term that has come into use, particularly in the United Kingdom, in the last two decades. Its ...
Francoprovençal
Jonathan Kasstan
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
FrancoprovençalIntroductionFrancoprovençal is the glottonym (language label) assigned by linguists to a severely endangered grouping of Romance variet...
French Grammars
Anne Abeillé
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
French GrammarsIntroductionThis article focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries, which have seen a growing number of grammars devoted to the French lan...
Frisian
Jarich Hoekstra
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
FrisianIntroductionFrisian is a West Germanic language based in the Netherlands and Germany. The language consists of three dialect groups: (1) West F...
Gabelentz, Georg von der
Els Elffers
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Georg von der GabelentzIntroductionHans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz (b. 1840–d. 1893) was a versatile and productive German linguist. He did not bel...
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...
Genetics and Language
Dan Dediu, Sarah Graham
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Genetics and Language Introduction This article surveys what is currently known about the complex interplay between genetics and the language ...
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...
Grammar, Categorial
Glyn Morrill
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Categorial GrammarIntroductionThe term “categorial grammar” refers to a variety of approaches to syntax and semantics in which expressions are categor...
Grammar, Construction
Mirjam Fried
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Construction Grammar Introduction Construction Grammar was originally developed as a monotonic, constraint-based framework whose conceptual ba...
Grammar, Descriptive
Willem de Reuse
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Descriptive GrammarIntroductionFor purposes of space, this bibliography excludes works focusing only on descriptive phonology, although, strictly spea...
Grammar, Functional Discourse
Inge Genee
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Functional Discourse GrammarIntroductionFunctional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is an expanded version of the Functional Grammar framework developed by Sim...
Grammars, Phrase Structure
Frank Van Eynde
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Phrase Structure GrammarsIntroductionPhrase structure grammars model the internal structure of a sentence in terms of a hierarchically organized repre...
Grammaticalization
D. Gary Miller, Elly van Gelderen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
GrammaticalizationIntroductionThe essence of grammaticalization is the evolution of a lexical category to a grammatical one or of a hybrid/functional ...
Harris, Zellig
Robert F. Barsky
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Zellig HarrisIntroductionZellig Harris (b. 1909–d. 1992) was a noted linguist whose work contributed to American anthropology, methodologies of scient...
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