Acceptability Judgments Jon Sprouse Subject: Linguistics » Acceptability Judgments ...

Acoustic Phoneitcs Allard Jongman Subject: Linguistics » Acoustic Phonetics Introduction Acoustic phonetics is the study of the acoustic characteristics of speech, including an analysis and descripti...

Acquisition, Second Language, and Bilingualism, Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Eleonora Rossi, Judith Kroll Subject: Linguistics » Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition and BilingualismIntroductionHow do the mind and brain accommodate the presence of more th...

Adpositions Alan Libert Subject: Linguistics » AdpositionsIntroductionAdposition is the name of a part of speech or word class. Although it may not be a familiar term to those outside of linguistic...

Affixation Stela Manova Subject: Linguistics » Affixation Introduction Affixation is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme, an affix, is attached to a morphological base. Diachro...

African Linguistics Jouni Filip Maho Subject: Linguistics » African Linguistics Introduction African languages appear in the written records already from Ancient Egyptian times, though then only a singl...

Afroasiatic Languages Bonny Sands Subject: Linguistics » Afroasiatic LanguagesIntroductionAfroasiatic languages are found across North Africa and throughout much of East Africa and the Middle East. Afroasiat...

Agreement Omer Preminger Subject: Linguistics » Agreement Introduction Agreement is a phenomenon in natural language in which the form of one word or morpheme covaries with the form of anoth...

Algonquian Linguistics Conor McDonough Quinn Subject: Linguistics » Algonquian Linguistics Introduction The traditional and post-European contact range of the Algonquian languages covers an enormous area: roughl...

Altaic Languages George Starostin Subject: Linguistics » Altaic Languages Introduction The term “Altaic” is commonly applied by linguists to a number of language families, spread across Central Asia ...

Analogy in Language and Linguistics Olga Fischer Subject: Linguistics » Analogy in Language and LinguisticsIntroductionAnalogy (from Ancient Greek αναλογια, “reasoning from one point to another”) is a cognitive process inv...

Anaphora Eric Reuland, Martin Everaert, Anna Volkova Subject: Linguistics » Anaphora Introduction Anaphora can be generally defined as “subsequent reference to an entity already introduced in discourse” (Safir 2004a; se...

Animal Communication Mark Krause Subject: Linguistics » Animal CommunicationIntroductionAnimal communication is a thriving area of study, with contributions from the fields of biology, ecology, animal behav...

Aphasia Christos Salis, Jessica Obermeyer, Susan Edwards Subject: Linguistics » AphasiaIntroductionAphasia is a language disorder acquired subsequent to brain damage that affects production and understanding of spoken and written ...

Applicatives David A. Peterson Subject: Linguistics » ApplicativesIntroductionApplicative constructions (henceforth, “applicatives”) allow languages to express what otherwise would be expressed as an obli...

Arawak Languages Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Subject: Linguistics » Arawak LanguagesIntroductionThe Arawak family is the largest in South America, with about forty extant languages. Arawak languages are spoken in lowla...

Argument Structure Beth Levin Subject: Linguistics » Argument StructureIntroductionThe term “argument structure” is used to refer to the lexical representation of argument-taking lexical items—typically ...

Artificial Languages Arika Okrent Subject: Linguistics » Artificial Languages Introduction Artificial languages are languages that have been consciously devised, usually by a single creator. They are...

Athabaskan Languages Sharon Hargus Subject: Linguistics » Athabaskan Languages Introduction The Athabaskan family of languages is or was spoken in primarily three regions: (1) in the interior of Alaska...