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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.

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• List of Contributors(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• 1 Origins of Language(p. 1)
• 2 Languages of the World(p. 19)
• 3 Writing Systems(p. 43)
• 4 The History of Linguistics(p. 81)
• 5 Historical Linguistics(p. 105)
• 6 Field Linguistics(p. 130)
• 7 Linguistic Phonetics(p. 150)
• 8 Phonology(p. 180)
• 9 Morphology(p. 213)
• 10 The Lexicon(p. 238)
• 11 Syntax(p. 265)
• 12 Generative Grammar(p. 295)
• 13 Functional Linguistics(p. 319)
• 14 Typology(p. 337)
• 15 An Introduction to Formal Semantics(p. 369)
• 16 Pragmatics: Language and Communication(p. 394)
• 17 Discourse Analysis(p. 428)
• 18 Linguistics and Literature(p. 446)
• 19 First Language Acquisition(p. 466)
• 20 Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: One Person with Two Languages(p. 488)
• 21 Multilingualism(p. 512)
• 22 Natural Sign Languages(p. 533)
• 23 Sociolinguistics(p. 563)
• 24 Neurolinguistics(p. 582)
• 25 Computational Linguistics(p. 608)
• 26 Applied Linguistics(p. 637)
• 27 Educational Linguistics(p. 647)
• 28 Linguistics and Reading(p. 664)
• 29 Clinical Linguistics(p. 673)
• 30 Forensic Linguistics(p. 683)
• 31 Translation(p. 692)
• 32 Language Planning(p. 704)
• Bibliography(p. 714)
• Index(p. 774)

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CHOICE Review

Aronoff and Rees-Miller note in their preface the gap between academic and general public thinking about linguistics, a gap largely due to erroneous ideas about language. They hope to bridge that gap with this book, which in their eyes presupposes no prior knowledge of linguistics; but in fact most of it is accessible only to someone with a good knowledge of language history and structure. The editors do include information for people who want to know what linguistics and its subdisciplines are about, and they are successful at showing the state of knowledge of various aspects of human language at the beginning of the 21st century. The volume begins with surveys of the languages and writing systems of the world, goes on to cover the now-traditional disciplines of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), and ends with a survey of newer fields like sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, and even forensic linguistics. Because of its wide range, the book is an essential resource in its area and is more up-to-date than the few other works of its kind. The writers frequently seem at once fascinated and intimidated by the field of linguistics, a reminder that it is an elusive and young science. All linguistics collections. J. B. Beston; formerly, Nazareth College of Rochester

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Mark Aronoff is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Provost at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Janie Rees-Miller is Chair of the Modern Languages Department and Director of the English as a Second Language Program at Marietta College, Ohio.