A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

by R.L. Trask

Book Overview

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the most influential grammatical frameworks, and the chief terms from mathematical and computational linguistics. It contains over 1500 entries, providing definitions and examples, pronunciations, the earliest sources of terms and suggestions for further reading, and recommendations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415086280
• ISBN13: 9780415086288
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An absolute must for anyone involved with linguistics!

Whether you are a linguist, or a person simply trying to make headway understanding an article that uses linguistic terminology (e.g., all those J.R.R. Tolkien fanatics who discover Appendices E and F in The Lord of the Rings and suddenly want to read everything they can get their hands on about Finnish and Welsh grammar but wouldn't know a allative from an allosaurus!) this book's for you. What's best about it, is not only does it give terminology utilized for non-Indo-European languages, but I found it was a great way to get a crash course in some of the latter-day schools of grammar that have erupted through the breaches in the once-solid wall of the stale, sterile, and limited Chomskian paradigm. My only complaint: the book, in addition to simply describing terms, should give more examples and contextual illustrations from actual languages.