A Dictionary of LanguageUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 390 pages No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and speech pathology. If you are wondering how many people speak Macedonian, Malay, or Makua, or if you're curious about various theories of the origins of language, or if you were always unsure of the difference between structuralism, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, this superbly authoritative dictionary will answer all of your questions and hundred of others. |
Contents
Section 1 | 17 |
Section 2 | 39 |
Section 3 | 70 |
Section 4 | 79 |
Section 5 | 88 |
Section 6 | 97 |
Section 7 | 118 |
Section 8 | 122 |
Section 11 | 205 |
Section 12 | 239 |
Section 13 | 270 |
Section 14 | 277 |
Section 15 | 311 |
Section 16 | 338 |
Section 17 | 349 |
Section 18 | 361 |
Common terms and phrases
1995 estimated abbreviation analysis aphasia Arabic Arabic alphabet articulation Austronesian Austronesian language Benue-Congo c.1 million century chiefly Chinese classification clause communication consonant context contrasts corpus creaky voice creole Cyrillic alphabet Descriptive Devanagari developed dialect diglossia endangered languages especially Examples include expression family of languages foreign language French function German grammar graphology Greek group of languages Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryan languages Indo-European inflection international purposes intonation Islands language is English language learning language pathology language spoken language teaching Latin letters lingua franca literary meaning morpheme notably notion noun phrase official language official regional language official status palate phonetics phonology pidgin population in 1995 produced pronoun pronunciation reference relationship Roman alphabet script second language semantic sentence Slavic Spanish speakers spelling standard structure syllable symbols syntactic tense term tongue Turkic typically usually utterance varieties verb vocabulary vocal folds vocal tract voice vowel writing system written