Hogan - Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences

Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics, finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of Minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic operation? Has your interest in narrative drawn you to question the relation between stories and grammars? The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences addresses these issues, along with hundreds of others. It includes basic entries for those unfamiliar with a given topic and more specific entries for those seeking more specialized knowledge. It incorporates both well-established findings and cutting-edge research as well as classical approaches and new theoretical innovations. The volume is aimed at readers who have an interest in some aspect of language science but wish to learn more about the broad range of ideas, findings, practices, and prospects that constitute this rapidly expanding field, a field arguably at the center of current research on the human mind and human society.

Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of ten books, including Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists and The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Advance Praise for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences

For both range and depth of exposition and commentary on the diverse disciplinary angles that exist on the nature of language, there is no single volume to match this fine work of reference. Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences is a very welcome addition to the field of language sciences. Its comprehensiveness is praiseworthy, as is the quality of its entries and discussions. Seymour Chatman, University of California, Berkeley

This ambitious and comprehensive work, and the very high quality of the editors and contributors, ensure that it will be a valuable contribution to the understanding of language and its uses, for both professionals and a more general audience. Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge University Press 2011

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First published 2011

Printed in the United States of America

The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences/edited by Patrick Colm Hogan.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-521-86689-7 (hardback)

1. Linguistics Encyclopedias. I. Hogan, Patrick Colm. II. Title.

P29.C28 2009

410.3DC22 2008041978

ISBN 978-0-521-86689-7 Hardback

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Advisory Editorial Board

Florian Coulmas
German Institute of Japanese Studies
and Duisberg-Essen University

Barbara Lust
Cornell University

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