A Dictionary Of Linguistics And Phonetics (Language Library) - Hardcover

9780631178699: A Dictionary Of Linguistics And Phonetics (Language Library)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631178694 ISBN 13: 9780631178699

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1991

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The new edition of this work adds around 300 new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the 1980s, chiefly in relation to the new models of linguistic theory, including an account of the terminology of Government-Binding theory. Special attention is paid to phonological theories, such as metrical phonology, and to pragmatics.

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"What we have here are definitions and explanations covering the main areas of twentieth–century linguistic thought, presented in language as clear and elegant as one could hope for Probably the work s outstanding quality certainly the most useful to its readers is its resolute fair–mindedness." Times Literary Supplement

"Deserves a place on the bookshelf of scholar and beginning student alike." Year′s Work in English Studies

"Crystal′s linguistic dictionary is not only the most comprehensive of today, but also the most up–to–date presentation of the entire field of modern linguistics...highly recommended to students and teachers of theoretical and general linguistics as well as to those of English, German, Romance or other languages." System

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"Much more than a dictionary, this impressive work of judicious scholarship is virtually a course of instruction in the wide range of studies of language. It cannot fail to be of great value to professionals, students, and the general interested public."
Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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