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The Handbook of Linguistics

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Linguistics

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Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook of

Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about

the subject and its subdisciplines.

Written by globally recognized leading figures, this Handbook

provides a comprehensive and accessible account of the field of

linguistics. It begins with a general overview that considers the

origins of language, frames the discipline within its historical

context, and looks at how linguists acquire new data. It then turns to

the traditional subdisciplines of linguistics.

This authoritative Handbook provides a broad yet detailed picture of

what is known about language today.

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Contributors

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Frank Anshen

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Mark C. Baker

Rutgers University

Lyle Campbell

University of Canterbury

David Caplan

Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital

Bob Carpenter

Speech Works

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

University of Canterbury

Jennifer Chu-Carroll

Bell Laboratories

Abigail Cohn

Cornell University

Bernard Comrie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Vivian Cook

University of Essex

Florian Coulmas

Gerhard Mercator University

William Croft

University of Manchester

D. A. Cruse

University of Manchester

David Crystal

University College of North Wales, Bangor

Peter T. Daniels

Independent scholar

Nigel Fabb

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University of Strathclyde

James Paul Gee

University of Wisconsin at Madison

Christoph Gutknecht

University of Hamburg

Brian D. Joseph

The Ohio State University

Ruth Kempson

King's College, London

Shalom Lappin

King's College, London

John Laver

University of Edinburgh

Diane Lillo-Martin

University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

Brian MacWhinney

Carnegie Mellon University

Pamela Munro

University of California, Los Angeles

Janie Rees-Miller

Marietta College

Suzanne Romaine

Merton College, University of Oxford

Christer Samuelsson

Xerox Research Center, Europe

Wendy Sandler

University of Haifa

Roger W. Shuy

Georgetown University

Andrew Spencer

University of Essex

Richard Sproat

AT&T Research

Rebecca Treiman

Wayne State University

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr

State University of New York at Buffalo

Thomas Wasow

Stanford University

Agnes Weiyun He

State University of New York, Stony Brook

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Handbook of Linguistics

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Preface

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For over a century, linguists have been trying to explain linguistics to other people who they believe

should be interested in their subject matter. After all, everyone speaks at least one language and most

people have fairly strong views about their own language. The most distinguished scholars in every

generation have written general books about language and linguistics targeted at educated laypeople

and at scholars in adjacent disciplines, and some of these books have become classics, at least among

linguists. The first great American linguist, William Dwight Whitney, published The Life and Growth of

Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science, in 1875. In the dozen years between 1921 and 1933, the

three best known English-speaking linguists in the world (Edward Sapir in 1921, Otto Jespersen in

1922, and Leonard Bloomfield in 1933) all wrote books under the title Language. All were very

successful and continued to be reprinted for many years. In our own time, Noam Chomsky, certainly

the most famous of theoretical linguists, has tried to make his ideas on language more accessible in

such less technical books as Language and Mind (1968) and Reflections on Language (1975). And

more recently, Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct (1995) stayed on the best-seller list for many

months.

Despite these efforts, linguistics has not made many inroads into educated public discourse. Although

linguists in the last hundred years have uncovered a great deal about human language and how it is

acquired and used, the advances and discoveries are still mostly unknown outside a small group of

practitioners. Many reasons have been given for this gap between academic and public thinking about

language, the most commonly cited reasons being: that people have strong and sometimes erroneous

views about language and have little interest in being disabused of their false beliefs; or that people

are too close to language to be able to see that it has interesting and complex properties. Whatever

the reason, the gap remains and is getting larger the more we learn about language.

The Handbook of Linguistics is a general introductory volume designed to address this gap in

knowledge about language. Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, it is intended for people

who would like to know what linguistics and its subdisciplines are about. The book was designed to

be as nontechnical as possible, while at the same time serving as a repository for what is known about

language as we enter the twenty-first century.

If The Handbook of Linguistics is to be regarded as authoritative, this will be in large part because of

the identity of the authors of the chapters. We have recruited globally recognized leading figures to

write each of the chapters. While the culture of academia is such that academic authors find it

tremendously difficult to write anything for anyone other than their colleagues, our central editorial

goal has been to avoid this pitfall. Our emphasis on the reader's perspective sets The Handbook of

Linguistics apart from other similar projects.

The place of the field of linguistics in academia has been debated since its inception. When we look at

universities, we may find a linguistics department in either the social sciences or the humanities.

When we look at the American government agencies that fund university research, we find that the

National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes

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