SYNOPTIC OUTLINE OF CONTENTS IN FIRST EDITION

TOPIC AREAS

 

The following list of major topic areas is arranged alphabetically.  Within each area, entries are also arranged alphabetically, with the following qualifications:

a.   Within composite entries, the titles of subentries are indented under those of main entries.

b.   For the articles on the History of Linguistics, an alphabetical arrangement is used for biographical articles, and a chronological arrangement for the rest.

c.   Titles concerned with Languages of the World are listed in two subsequent synoptic lists.  The first is a single alphabetic listing of languages, language families, and language areas. The second is an alphabetic list of language families, each with its internal hierarchical composition; it also includes names of language areas, with cross-references to the relevant families.

 

Anthropological Linguistics (Topic Editor: JANE H. HILL)

Anthropological Linguistics

An Overview (JANE H. HILL)

Early History in North America (REGNA DARNELL)

Culture History and Historical Linguistics (CALVERT WATKINS)

Ethnosemantics (EUGENE  S. HUNN)

Fieldwork and Linguistic Theory (JUDITH L. AISSEN)

Nonverbal Communication (MARY RITCHIE KEY)

Origins of Language (WILLIAM S-Y.  WANG)

Semiotics: Semiotics and Anthropological Linguistics (GREG URBAN)

Sign Language: An Overview (ADAM KENDON)

Social Structure and Language (PHILIP K BOCK)

Text and Discourse in Anthropological Linguistics (RICHARD BAUMAN)

World View and Language (PHILIP K. BOCK)

 

Applied Linguistics (Topic Editors: ROBERT B. KAPLAN and HENRY WIDDOWSON)

Acquisition of Language: Second-Language Acquisition (MICHAEL H. LONG)

Applied Linguistics: An Overview (ROBERT B. KAPLAN and HENRY WIDDOWSON)

History of the Field (PETER STREVENS)

Language Planning (MICHAEL CLYNE)

Minorities and Language Planning (ALLISON D'ANGLEJAN)

Applied Pragmatics (GABRIELE KASPER)

Assessment (LYLE F. BACHMAN)

Bilingualism

    Bilingual Education (JIM CUMMINS)

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism (BRAI B. KACHRU)

Classroom-Oriented Research (DICK ALLWRIGHT)

Computer-Assisted Instruction (MARTIN K. PHILLIPS)

Contrastive Analysis (CARL JAMES)

Contrastive Rhetoric (ROBERT B. KAPLAN)

Critical Linguistics (NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH)

Institutional Linguistics (JOANN CRANDALL and MARGARET VAN NAERSSEN)

Interlanguage (MICHAEL SHARWOOD SMITH)

Language for Specific Purposes (JOHN M. SWALES)

Language-in-Education Planning (D.  E. INGRAM)

Lexicography (ROBERT ILSON)

Literacy: Applied Linguistic Aspects (DAVID H. BENDOR-SAMUEL)

Pathology of Language (PAUL FLETCHER)

Pedagogical Grammar (WILLIAM E. RUTHERFORD)

Pedagogical Linguistics (CHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT)

Reading Research (DAVID E. ESKEY)

Scientific Nomenclature (BJORN H. JERNUDD)

Style: Applied Stylistics (RONALD CARTER)

Translation and Interpretation (RODA P. ROBERTS)

Writing Research (WILLIAM GRABE)

 

 

Computational Linguistics (Topic Editor: GERALD GAZDAR)

Computational Morphology (KIMMO KOSKENNIEMI)

Corpus Processing (GEOFFREY LEECH)

Literary and Linguistic Computing (SUSAN HOCKEY)

Machine Translation (MARGARET KING)

Natural Language Processing

          An Overview (KAREN SPARCK JONES)

      Generation (GERARD KEMPEN)

      Grammar Formalisms (STUART M. SHIEBER)

      Interfaces (BRANIMIR K. BOGURAEV)

      Lexical Organization (DANIEL P. FLICKINGER)

      Pragmatics and Discourse (C.  RAYMOND PERRAULT)

      Semantics and Knowledge Representation (LENHART K. SCHUBERT)

Parsing (STEPHEN G. PULMAN)

System Architectures (KAREN SPARCK JONES)

 

Discourse (Topic Editor: WALLACE CHAFE)

Conversation Analysis (DONALD ZIMMERMAN)

Discourse 

    An Overview (WALLACE CHAFE) 

    Acquisition of Competence (ELINOR OCHS) 

    Discourse Markers (DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN)  

Ethnography of Speaking (JOEL SHERZER) 

Ethnopoetics (DELL HYMES)

Formulaic Speech (ANDREW PAWLFY)

Humor and Language (VICTOR RASKIN)

Information Flow (WALLACE CHAFE)

Law and Language (SUSAN U. PHILIPS)

Medicine and Language (PAULA A. TREICHLER)

Narrative: Conversational Narrative (CHARLOTTE LINDE) 

Psychotherapy and Language (ROBIN LAKOFF)

Ritual Language (JOHN W. DU BOIS)

Sex and Language (SALLY MCCONNEI-L-GINET)

Sociolinguistics: Interactional Sociolinguistics (DEBORAH TANNEN)

Verbal Play (JOEL SHERZER)

 

Formal Grammar (Topic Editor: DAVID LIGHTFOOT)

Adjunction (IAN G. ROBERTS)

Anaphora (DAVID LEBEAUX)

Binding (JOSEPH AOUN)

Categorial Grammar (RICHARD OEHRLE)

C-Command (HILDA KOOPMAN)

Clitics: Pronominal Clitics (HAGIT BORER)

Complementation: 'comp' in Formal Grammar (PAUL GORRELL)

Control (JAMES MCCLOSKEY)

Coordination (GRANT GOODALL)

Deletion (ANNE LOBECK)

D-Structure (JAN KOSTER)

Ellipsis (TANYA REINHART)

Filters (ROBERT FREIDIN)

Formal Grammar (DAVID LIGHTFOOT)

Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammar (GERALD GAZDAR)

Government (MAMORU SAITO)

Government/Binding Theory (DAVID PESETSKY)

Grammatical Meaning (JANE GRIMSHAW)

Grammatical Relations (LUIGI BURZIO)

Lexical-Functional Grammar (ANNIE ZAENEN and RONALD M. KAPLAN)

Lexicon: Lexicon in Formal Grammar (RICHARD SPROAT)

Markedness: An Overview (MARY-LOUISE KEAN)

Metarules (EWAN KLEIN)

Montague Grammar (BARBARA ABBOTT)

Parasitic Gaps (HELES CONTRERAS)

Phrase Structure (PETER SELLS)

Predication (GUGLIELMO CINQUE

Pronouns: Pronominals (DOMINIQUE SPORTICHE)

Reanalysis Rules (LUIGI RIZZI)

Recoverability (GUGLIELMO CINQUE)

Relational Grammar and Arc Pair Grammar (DAVID M. PERLMUTTER)

S-Structure (JAN KOSTER)

Stylistic Rules (PETER COOPMANS)

Subcategorization and Selection (JANE GRIMSHAW)

Subjacency (HOWARD LASNIK)

Syntactic Features (JINDKICH TOMAN)

Systemic Grammar (J.  R. MARTIN)

Traces (HOWARD LASNIK)

Transformations (MARK R. BALTIN)

 

Functional Grammar (Topic Editor: SANDRA A. THOMPSON)

Causative (BERNARD COMRIE)

Clause-Combining Constructions (JANINE SCANCARELLI)

Complementation: An Overview (MICHAEL NOONAN)

Discourse: Emergence of Grammar (PAUL J. HOPPER)

Functional Grammar (SANDRA A. THOMPSON)

Iconicity (JOHN HAIMAN)

Negation (JOHN R. PAYNE)

Parts of Speech (PAUL SCHACHTER)

Predicate Nominals (ALAN TIMBERLAKE and JOHANNA NICHOLS)

Questions (EDITH A. MORAVCSIK)

Relativization (CHRISTIAN LEHMANN)

Tense: Tense, Aspect, and Mood (JOAN L. BYBEE)

Transitivity and Argument Coding (MARK DURIE)

Word Order (MATTHEW S. DRYER)

 

Historical Linguistics (Topic Editors: HENRY HOENIGSWALD and SARA E. KIMBALL)

Analogy (PAUL KIPARSKY)

Areal Linguistics (COLIN P. MASICA)

Borrowing: An Overview (EINAR HAUGEN)

Causation in Language Change (HANS HENRICH HOCK)

Comparative Method (SARA E. KIMBALL)

Dialectology (W.  NELSON FRANCIS)

Etymology (ERIC P. HAMP)

Genetic Classification (M.  E. KROPP DAKUBU)

Grammaticalization (PAUL J. HOPPER)

Historical Linguistics

Ancestry and Descent (HENRY HOENIGSWALD)

Mathematical Concepts (SHEILA EMBLETON)

Obsolescence, Neologism, and Replacement (HENRY HOENIGSWALD)

  Typology and Universals (PAUL J. HOPPER)

 

Internal Reconstruction (ROGER LASS)

Phonological Change (THEODORA BYNON)

Pidgins and Creoles (JOHN RICKFORD)

Relative Chronology (ANNA MORPURGO DAVIES)

Semantic and Lexical Change (FRED W. HOUSEHOLDER)

Semantic Reconstruction (PAUL FRIEDRICH)

Stylistic Reconstruction (CALVERT WATKINS)

Syntactic Change (ANTHONY KROCH)

Syntactic Reconstruction (GARY B. HOLLAND)

 

History of Linguistics (Topic Editor: R. H. ROBINS)

Biographical articles:

Bloomfield, Leonard (ROBERT A. HALL, JR.)

Bopp, Franz (K.  M. HAYWARD)

Grimm, Jakob (K.  M. HAYWARD)

Humboldt, Wilhelm von (PAUL R. SWEET)

Jakobson, Roman (MORRIS HALLE)

Jones, Sir William (GARLAND CANNON)

Pott, August Friedrich (THEODORA BYNON)

Sapir, Edward (FRED EGGAN)

Schleicher, August (THEODORA BYNON)

Wallis, John (J.  ALAN KEMP)

Whorf, Benjamin Lee (JOHN B. CARROLL)

Other articles:

History of Linguistics

          An Overview (PIERRE SWIGGERS)

          Babylonian Grammatical Tradition (PIOTR MICHALOWSKI)

        Ancient India (ROSANE ROCHER)

        Ancient Greece and Rome (R.  H. ROBINS)

        Early Middle Ages (VIVIEN LAW)

          Medieval Scholastic Grammar (MICHAEL A. COVINGTON)

      The Renaissance (W.  KEITH PERCIVAL)

      Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe (PIERRE SWIGGERS)

          Comparative-Historical Linguistics (ANNA MORPURGO DAVIES)

          Early Structuralism (GIULIO LEPSCHY)

      The Prague School (JOSEF VACHEK)

      American Structuralism (JOHN G. FOUGHT)

          The London School (EUGGNIE HENDERSON and R. H. ROBINS)

  Generative Grammar (FREDERICK J. NEWMEYER)

  Stratificational Grammar (DAVID C. BENNETT)

          Tagmemics (KENNETH L. PIKE)

 

Literature and Linguistics (Topic Editor: WILLIAM FRAWLEY)

Literary Pragmatics (ANN BANFIELD)

Metaphor: Metaphor in Literature (SAMUEL R. LEVIN)

Narrative:  Literary Narrative (ROGER FOWLER)

Poetics (C.  J. VAN REES)

Semiotics: Semiotics and Literature (FLOYD MERRELL)

Style: Literary Stylistics (RICHARD D. CURETON)

 

Mathematical Linguistics (Topic Editor: GEOFFREY K. PULLUM)

Overview (GEOFFREY K. PULLUM)

Generative Capacity (EMMON BACH)

Automata Theory (DAVID WEIR)

Chomsky Hierarchy (ROBERT WALL)

Finite State Grammars and Languages (TERRY LANGENDOEN)

Context Free Grammars and Languages (GEOFFREY K. PULLUM)

Recognition (ERIC RISTAD)

Learnability (GEOFFREY K. PULLUM)

Statistical Linguistics (GEOFFREY SAMPSON)

Morphology (Topic Editor: WOLFGANG DRESSLER)

Abbreviation (JOHN ALGEO)

Adjacency (FRANS PLANK)

Adjectives (BEATRICE WARREN)

Affixation (WOLFGANG DRESSLER)

Case (FERENC KIEFER)

Clitics: An Overview (ARNOLD M. ZWICKY)

Compounding (JINDRICH TOMAN)

Conversion (DIETER KASTOVSKY)

Derivational Morphology (WOFLGANG MOTSCH)

Diminutives (LAVINIA MERLINI BARBARESI)

Gender and Noun Classification (DAVID A. ZUBIN)

Generative Morphology (SERGIO SCALISE)

Gradation (PAUL KENT ANDERSEN

Heads (JACOB HOEKSEMA)

Inflection (PETER MATTHEWS)

Inheritance (JANET H. RANDALL)

Interjections (RICHARD A. RHODES)

Lexemes (MARK ARONOFF)

Morpheme (PETER MATTHEWS)

Morphology

        An Overview (WOLFGANG DRESSLER)

        Morphological Typology (CLAUDE HAGEGE)

        Morphology and Phonology (BILL DARDEN)

          Morphology and Syntax (ARNOLD M. ZWICKY)

Natural Morphology (MARIANNE KILANI-SCHOCH)

Nouns (LEONARD TALMY)

Number (ROBERT BEARD)

Numerals (JAMES R. HURFORD)

Paradigms (JAAP VAN MARLE)

Pronouns: An Overview (CHARLES J. FILLMORE)

Reduplication (EDITH A. MORAVCSIK)

Stem and Root (MARK ARONOFF)

Suppletion (IGOR A. MEL'TUK)

Tense: An Overview (OSTEN DAHL)

Verbs (JOAN L. BYBEE)

Word-and-Paradigm Model (PETER MATTHEWS)

Words (E.  M. UHLENBECK)

 

Neurolinguistics (Topic Editor: LISE MENN)

Agrammatism (JEAN-LUC NESPOULOUS)

Alexia (RHONDA B. FRIEDMAN)

Anomia (ARTHUR WINGFIELD)

Aphasia (RITA SLOAN BERNDT)

Apraxia (ENNIO DE RENZI)

Bilingualism: Language Localization in Bilingualism (LORAINE K. OBLER)

Dementia and Language (LORAINE K. OBLER)

Dyslexia (MARYANNE WOLF)

Dysphasia (SUSAN CURTISS)

Neural Structures (DAVID CAPLAN)

Lateralization of Language (HARRY A. WHITAKER)

Paragrammatism (ANDRE ROCH LECOURS and RENEE BELAND)

Psycholinguistics: Approaches to Neurolinguistics (SHEILA E. BLUMSTEIN)

Reading and Lateralization (OVID TZENG)

Schizophrenia and Language (ANDRE ROCH LECOURS, RENEE BELAND, and GEORGES AIRD)

 

Philosophy of Language (Topic Editor: SCOTT SOAMES)

Explanation (KIM STERELNY)

Indexicals (MARK RICHARD)

Logic of Anaphora (STEPHEN NEALE)

Names and Natural Kinds (BERNARD W. KOBES)

Philosophy of Language (SCOTT SOAMES)

Pragmatics, Implicature, and Presupposition (LAURENCE R. HORN)

Propositions (ALI AKHTAR KAZMI)

Temporality (NATHAN SALMON)

 

Phonetics (Topic Editor: PETER LADEFOGED)

Acoustic Phonetics (FRANCIS J. NOLAN)

Articulatory Phonetics (PETER F. MACNEILAGE)

Coarticulation and Timing (PATRICIA A. KEATING)

International Phonetic Association (M. K. C. MACMAHON)

Jespersen, Otto (JOHN KELLY)

Jones, Daniel (JOHN KELLY)

Organs of Speech (W.  J. HARDCASTLE)

Passy, Paul-Edouard (JOHN KELLY)

Perception of Speech: Phonetic Aspects (SHEILA E. BLUMSTEIN)

Phonetics

An Overview (PETER LADEFOGED)

History of the Field (JOHN KELLY

Phonetic Transcription (PETER ROACH)

Phonetic Universals (IAN MADDIESON)

Sievers, Eduard (JOHN KELLY)

Speaker Recognition (FRANCIS J. NOLAN)

Speech Recognition (MARCEL A. A. TATHAM)

Speech Synthesis (JOHN E. CLARK)

Sweet, Henry (JOHN KELLY)

Syllables:  Syllables and Stress in Phonetics (ILSE LEHISTE)

Tone: Tone in Phonetics (ILSE LEHISTE)

Voice Quality (JOHN LAVER)

 

Phonology (Topic Editor: JOHN J. MCCARTHY)

Autosegmental Phonology (GEORGE N. CLEMENTS)

Borrowing: Loanword Phonology (ELLEN BROSELOW)

Compensatory Lengthening (KARIN MICHELSON)

Cycle (JOAN MASCARO)

Downstep and Downdrift (MARY M. CLARK)

Generative Phonology (SHARON INKELAS and PAUL KIPARSKY)

Intonation (JANET PIERREHUMBERT)

Iterative Rules (MOIRA YIP)

Juncture and Boundary (MARK ARONOFF)

Lexical Phonology (GEERT E. BOOIJ and JERZY RUBACH)

Markedness: Markedness in Phonology (DIANA ARCHANGELI)

Metrical Phonology (BRUCE HAYES)

Morpheme-Structure Constraints (R.  ARMIN MESTER)

Morphophonemics (EDMUND GUSSMANN)

Natural Phonology (PATRICIA DONEGAN)

Particle Phonology and Dependency Phonology (SANFORD A. SCHANE)

Phonemic Systems (IAN MADDIESON)

Phonological Features (MORRIS HALLE)

Phonology

       An Overview (JOHN J. MCCARTHY)

       American Structuralist Phonology (MICHAEL KENSTOWICZ)

European Structuralist Phonology (LINDA R. WAUGH and ELIZABETH V. HUME)

       External Validation (JOSEPH STEMBERGER)

Prosodic Phonology (STEPHEN R. ANDERSON) Rule-Ordering in Phonology (STEPHEN R. ANDERSON

Sandhi (ELISABETH SELKIRK)

Segments (ALAN PRINCE)

Sign Language: Phonology (DAVID M. PERLMUTTER)

Syllables:  Syllables in Phonology (DONCA STERIADE)

Tone: Tone in Phonology (LARRY M. HYMAN)

Vowel Harmony and Consonant Harmony (NORVAL S. H. SMITH)

Psycholinguistics (Topic Editor: EVE V. CLARK)

Acquisition of Language

Meanings and Forms (EVE V. CLARK)

Phonology (LISE MENN)

Bilingualism: An Overview (KENJI HAKUTA)

Comprehension (MICHAEL K. TANENHAUS)

Perception of Speech: Psycholinguistic Aspects (ANNE CUTLER)

Processing

Comprehension and Production (H.  STEPHEN STRAIGHT)

Mental Lexicon (WILLIAM MARSLEN-WILSON)

Universals (BRIAN MACWHINNEY)

  Production of Language (HERBERT CLARK)

  Psycholinguistics: An Overview (WILLEM LEVELT)

 

Semantics (Topic Editor: KEITH ALLAN)

   Componential Analysis (ADRIENNE LEHRER)

Connotation (A.  E. BACKHOUSE)

Cooperative Principle (KEITH ALLAN)

Deixis (STEPHEN LEVINSON)

Lexicon: An Overview (IGOR A. MEL'CUK)

Meaning

Properties and Relationships (JAMES R. HURFORD)

Prosody and Meaning (ALAN CRUTTENDEN)

  Sense, Denotation, and Reference (KEITH ALLAN)

Metaphor: Metaphor and Semantics (GEORGE LAKOFF)

Prototype Semantics (LINDA COLEMAN)

Semantics

An Overview (KEITH ALLAN)

Informational and Rhetorical Structure (ELLEN F. PRINCE)

Semantic Parsing (YORICK WILKS)

Semantic Primitives (ANNA WIERZBICKA)

Truth-Conditional and Model-Theoretic Semantics (M. J. CRESSWELL)

Sound Symbolism (DWIGHT BOLINGER)

Speech Acts (ROBERT M. HARNISH)

Text Understanding (LIVIA POLANYI)

 

Sociolinguistics (Topic Editor: PETER TRUDGILL)

Address (JENNIFER COATES)

Attitudes to Language (HOWARD GILES)

Communicative Competence (MURIEL SAVILLE-TROIKE)

Obsolescent Languages (NANCY C. DORIAN)

Polylectal Grammars (PETER MUHLHAUSLER)

Power and Language (ROGER FOWLER)

Prescriptive Grammar (LESLEY MILROY and JAMES MILROY)

Register and Style (JENNY CHESHIRE)

Social Dialects (DONNA CHRISTIAN)

Sociolinguistics

        Language Planning (ERNST HAKON JAHR)

          Minorities and Sociolinguistics (MARILYN MARTIN-JONES)

    Quantitative Sociolinguistics (PENELOPE ECKERT)

      Sociohistorical Linguistics (SUZANNE ROMAINE)

Sociology of Language (JOHN GIBBONS)

Variation Analysis (RALPH W. FASOLD)

 

Written Language (Topic Editor: DEBORAH TANNEN)

Cuneiform (MIGUEL CIVIL)

Decipherment (ANNA MORPURGO DAVIES)

Discourse: Transcription of Discourse (JANE A. EDWARDS)

Literacy

An Overview (SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH)

Intellectual Consequences (MICHAEL COLE and AGELIKI NICOLOPOULOU)

     Sociolinguistic Aspects (DEBORAH TANNEN)                      

   Writing Systems and Literacy (RON SCOLLON)                   

Orthography Planning (MARIANNE MITHUN)

Typography (CHARLES BIGELOW)

Writing Systems (FLORIAN COULMAS)                                      

Written Language

          Written Language and Linguistic Theory (PER LINELL)

          Writing versus Speech (WALLACE CHAFE)

 

 

 

LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD

 

In this list of titles, the names of languages, language families, and language areas are arranged in a single alphabetic order. The Topic Editor for these titles was Bernard Comrie, who also provided the text of articles for which no other authorship is stated.  In the synoptic list which follows this one, the same titles are arranged by language families and areas. (For the names of languages and families not found here, see the index.)

 

Adamawa Languages

Adamawa-Ubangi Languages

Adelbert Range Languages

Admiralty Islands Languages

African Languages (BERND HEINE)

Afro-Asiatic Languages (ANDRZEJ ZABORSKI)

Akkadian (GIORGIO BUCCELLATI)

Alacalufan Languages

Albanian

Algic Languages

Algonkian Languages (IVES GODDARD)

Altaic Languages (BERNARD COMRIE)

Amharic (M.  LIONEL BENDER)

Amto-Musan Languages

Anatolian Languages

Andamanese Languages

Angan Languages

Apo Duat Languages

Arabic (WOLFDIETRICH FISCHER)

Aramaic (ROBERT D. HOBERMAN)

Arandic Languages

Araucanian Languages

Arawakan Languages (DESMOND C. DERBYSHIRE)

Armenian (JOHN A. C. GREPPIN)

Arutani-Sape Languages

Aslian Languages

Athabaskan Languages (EUNG-DO COOK)

Atlantic Languages

Australian Languages (R.  M. W. DIXON)

Austro-Asiatic Languages (GERARD DIFFLOTH and NORMAN ZIDE)

Austronesian Languages (ROSS CLARK)

Awera Languages

Bali-Sasak Languages

Balkan Languages (BRIAN D. JOSEPH)

Baltic Languages (JULES F. LEVIN)

Bantoid Languages

Bantu Languages (BENJI WALD)

Baric Languages

Barito Languages

Bashiic-Central Luzon-North Mindoro Languages

Basque (RUDOLF P. G. DE RIJK)

Beboid Languages

Bengali (M.  H. KLAIMAN)

Benue-Congo Languages

Berber Languages

Berta Languages

Bima-Sumba Languages

Biu-Mandara Languages

Bodic Languages

Bodish Languages

Bodo-Garo Languages

Borneo Languages

Bougainville Languages

Bulgarian (HOWARD 1. ARONSON)

Bunaban Languages

Bungku-Mori Languages

Buraffan Languages

Burmese (JULIAN K. WHEATLEY)

Burmese-Lolo Languages

Caddoan Languages

Cahuapanan Languages

Cariban Languages (B.  J. HOFF)

Caucasian Languages (B.  G. HEWITT)

Celtic Languages (D.  MACAULAY)

Central American Languages

Central and South New Guinean Languages

Central Gur Languages

Central Indo-Aryan Languages

Central Malayo-Polynesian Languages

Central Maluku Languages

Central Philippine Languages

Central Sudanic Languages

Central Sulawesi Languages

Chadic Languages (PAUL NEWMAN)

Chapacura Languages

Chibchan Languages

Chimakuan Languages

Chinantecan Languages

Chinese (CHARLES N. LI)

Choiseul Languages

Chon Languages

Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages

Coahuiltecan Languages

Cross River Languages

Cushitic Languages (HANS-JURGEN SASSE)

Czech and Slovak (DAVID SHORT)

Daly Languages

Dani-Kwerba Languages

Defoid Languages

Djamindjungan Languages

Dieragan Languages

Dravidian Languages (BHADRIRAJU KRISHNAMURTI)

Dutch (JAN G. KOOIJ)

East Bird's Head Languages

East Central Indo-Aryan Languages

East Central Sulawesi Languages

East Chadic Languages

East Indo-Aryan Languages

East Malayo-Polynesian Languages

East Mon-Khmer Languages

East New Guinea Highlands Languages

East Papuan Languages

East Sudanic Languages

East Trans-New Guinea Languages

Edoid Languages

Egyptian (ANTONIO LOPRIENO)

Ekoid Languages

Elamite (ERICA REINER)

Eleman Languages

English (EDWARD FINEGAN)

Eskimo-Aleut Languages (LAWRENCE D. KAPLAN)

Finnish (FRED KARLSSON)

Formosan Languages

French (MARTIN HARRIS)

Fula (D.  W. ARNOTT)

Fur Languages

Geelvink Bay Languages

Georgian (ALICE C. HARRIS)

German (JOHN A. HAWKINS)

Germanic Languages (ALBERT L. LLOYD)

Gogodala-Suki Languages

Greek (BRIAN D. JOSEPH)

Guaranian Languages (ROBERT A. DOOLEY)

Gujarati (P.  J. MISTRY)

Gulf Languages

Gunwingguan Languages

Gur Languages

Hausa (PAUL NEWMAN)

Hebrew, Ancient (RICHARD C. STEINER)

Hebrew, Modern (RUTH A. BERMAN)

Hindi (YAMUNA KACHRU)

Hittite (JAAN PUHVEL)

Hmong-Mien Languages

Hokan Languages

Hungarian (DANIEL ABONDOLO)

Huon-Finisterre Languages

Hurrian and Urartian (GENE GRAGG)

Idomoid Languages

Igbo (KAY WILLIAMSON and E. NOLUE EMENANJO)

Igboid Languages

Ijoid Languages

Indo-Aryan Languages (GEORGE CARDONA)

Indo-European Languages (CALVERT WATKINS)

Indo-Iranian Languages (GEORGE CARDONA)

Inland Gulf Languages

Iranian Languages (JOHN R. PAYNE)

Iroquoian Languages (MARIANNE MITHUN)

Italian (NIGEL VINCENT)

Italic (ROBERT G. G. COLEMAN)

Iwaidjan Languages

Japanese (MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI)

Jaqi Languages

Jarawan Languages

Javanese (ELINOR C. HORNE)

Javanese Languages

Jivaroan Languages

Kadai Languages

Kaili-Pamona Languages

Kainji Languages

Kalamian Languages

Kam-Sui Languages

Kannada (HAROLD F. SCHIFFMAN)

Karen Languages

Karnic Languages

Katukinan Languages

Kaure Languages

Kayagar Languages

Kayan-Kenyah Languages

Keresan Languages

Khmer (GARARD DIFFLOTH)

Khoisan Languages

Kiowa-Tanoan Languages

Kiranti Languages

Kolopom Languages

Komuz Languages

Konyak Languages

Kordofanian Languages

Korean (NAM-KIL KIM)

Kru Languages

Kuki-Chin Languages

Kuliak Languages

Kurdish (ERNEST N. MCCARUS)

Kutubuan Languages

Kwa Languages

Kwomtari-Baibai Languages

Lampungic Languages

Land Dayak Languages

Laragiyan Languages

Latin (ROBERT G. G. COLEMAN)

Left May Languages

Loyalty Islands Languages

Lule-Vilela Languages

Maban Languages

Macro-G8 Languages

Madang Languages

Mairasi-Tanahmerah Languages

Maku Languages

Malay and Indonesian (D.  J. PRENTICE)

Malayalam (K.  P. MOHANAN)

Malayic Languages

Malayo-Polynesian Languages

Mamfe Languages

Mande Languages

Mangerrian Languages

Maran Languages

Marathi (RAJESHWARI VIJAY PANDHARIPANDE)

Maric Languages

Marind Languages

Markham Languages

Masa Languages

Mascoian Languages

Mataco-Guaycuru Languages

Mayan Languages (LYLE CAMPBELL)

Mek Languages

Meso-American Languages (LYLE CAMPBELL)

Micronesian Languages

Mikir-Meithei Languages

Milne Bay-Central Province Languages

Mirish Languages

Misumalpan Languages

Mixe-Zoquean Languages

Mixtecan Languages

Mongolian Languages (ROBERT 1. BINNICK)

Mongodow-Gorontalic Languages

Muna-Buton Languages

Munda Languages

Muskogean Languages

Na-Dene Languages

Naga Languages

Nahuatl (FRANCES KARTTUNEN)

Nambiquaran Languages

Narrow Bantu (groups 'A' through 'S')

Nepali (MANINDRA K. VERMA)

New Britain Languages

New Caledonia Languages

New Georgia Languages

New Guinea Languages (WILLIAM A. FOLEY)

New Ireland-Tolai Languages

Nicobarese Languages

Niger-Congo Languages (JOHN BENDOR-SAMUEL)

Nilo-Saharan Languages (GERRIT J. DIMMENDAAL)

Nilotic Languages

Nimboran Languages

North American Languages (DAVID S. ROOD)

North and Central Vanuatu Languages

North Bantoid Languages

North Caucasian Languages

Northeast Borneo Languages

North Indo-Aryan Languages

North Luzon Languages

North Mon-Khmer Languages

North Trans-New Guinea Languages

Northwest Indo-Aryan Languages

Nungish Languages

Nupoid Languages

Nuristani Languages

Nyulnyulan Languages

Oceanic Languages

Omotic Languages

Otomanguean Languages

Otopamean Languages

Paezan Languages

Palawano Languages

Pali (K. R. NORMAN)

Pama-Nyungan Languages

Paman Languages

Panoan Languages

Pashto (D.  N. MACKENZIE)

Pauwasi Languages

Peba-Yaguan Languages

Penutian Languages

Persian (GERNOT L. WINDFUHR)

Platoid Languages

Polish (GERALD STONE)

Polynesian Languages (NIKO BESNIER)

Popolocan Languages

Portuguese (STEPHEN PARKINSON)

Punjabi (TEJ K. BHATIA)

Quechuan Languages (WILLEM F. H. ADELAAR)

Ramu Languages

Rejang-Baram Languages

Romance Languages (SUZANNE FLEISCHMAN)

Rotuman-Fijian Languages

Rumanian (GRAHAM MALLINSON)

Russian (ROLAND SUSSEX)

Saharan Languages

Salishan Languages (M.  DALE KINKADE)

Salivan Languages

Sama-Bajaw Languages

Sangir-Minahasan Languages

Sanskrit (MADHAV M. DESHPANDE)

Santa Cruz Languages

Santa Isabel Languages

Sarmi-Yotafa Languages

Scandinavian Languages (EINAR HAUGEN)

Semitic Languages (ROBERT HETZRON)

Senagi Languages

Sentani Languages

Senufo Languages

Sepik Languages

Sepik-Ramu Languages

Serbo-Croatian (GREVILLE G. CORBETT)

Siassi Languages

Siberian Languages (BERNARD COMRIE)

Sinhala (JAMES W. GAIR)

Sinhalese-Maldivian Languages

Sino-Tibetan Languages (SCOTT DELANCEY)

Siouan Languages (DAVID S. ROOD)

Sko Languages

Slavic Languages (BERNARD COMRIE)

Somali (DOUGLAS BIBER)

Songhai Languages

South American Languages (HARRIET E. MANELIS KLEIN)

South Asian Languages (COLIN P. MASICA)

South Bantoid Languages

South Bird's Head Languages

South Caucasian Languages

Southeast Asian Languages (JAMES A. MATISOFF)

Southeast Maluku Languages

Southeast Solomons Languages

South Halmahera-West New Guinea Languages

South Indo-Aryan Languages

South Mangyan Languages

South Mindanao Languages

South Philippine Languages

South Sulawesi Languages

South Vanuatu Languages

Southwest Pama-Nyungan Languages

Spanish (JOHN N. GREEN)

Subtiaba-Tlapanec Languages

Sulawesi Languages

Sumatra Languages

Sumerian (PIOTR MICHALOWSKI)

Sundic Languages

Swahili (THOMAS H. HINNEBUSCH)

Tacanan Languages

Tagalog (PAUL SCHACHTER)

Tai-Kadai Languages

Tai Languages (ANTHONY DILLER)

Tamil (SANFORD B. STEEVER)

Teberan-Pawaian Languages

Telugu (BHADRIRAJU KRISHNAMURTI)

Thai (ANTHONY DILLER)

Tibetan (KUN CHANG)

Timor-Alor-Pantar Languages

Timor-Flores Languages

Tivoid Languages

Tocharian Languages

Tomini Languages

Torricelli Languages

Totonacan Languages

Trans-Fly-Bulaka River Languages

Trans-New Guinea Languages

Tukanoan Languages

Tungusic Languages

Tupian Languages (CHERYL J. JENSEN)

Turama-Kikorian Languages

Turkic Languages (BERNARD COMRIE)

Turkish (JAKLIN KORNFILT)


Ubangi Languages                                                      

Ukaan-Akpes Languages                                            

Ukrainian (BERNARD COMRIE)                                 

Uralic Languages (JUHA JANHUNEN)                        

Urdu (ANWAR S. DIL)                                                 

Uru-Chipaya Languages                                             

Uto-Aztecan Languages (WICK R. MILLER)

Viet-Muong Languages                                               

Vietnamese (DINH-HOA NGUYEN)                              

Wakashan Languages                                                 

West Barkly Languages                                              

West Bomberai Languages                                          

West Chadic Languages                                              

West Malayo-Polynesian Languages                           

West Papuan Languages

Wide Grassfields Languages

Wissel Lakes-Kemandoga Languages

Witotoan Languages

Wororan Languages

Yanomam Languages

Yoruba (DOUGLAS PULLEYBLANK

Yucatec Mayan (JOHN S. ROBERTSON)

Yuin-Kuric Languages

Yukian Languages

Yuulngu Languages

Zamucoan Languages

Zaparoan Languages

Zapotecan Languages