What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the relationship of language to thought? Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics explores how fifty of the most influential figures in the field have asked and have responded to classic questions about language. Each entry includes a discussion of the person's life, work and ideas as well as the historical context and an analysis of his or her lasting contributions. Thinkers include: Aristotle Samuel Johnson Friedrich Max Muller Ferdinand de Saussure Joseph H. Greenberg Noam Chomsky Fully cross-referenced and with useful guides to further reading, this is an ideal introduction to the thinkers who have had a significant impact on the subject of Language and Linguistics.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. 'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics!highly recommended.' The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid prose Jean Aitchison introduces and demystifies a complex and controversial subject: What is language and is it restricted to humans? How do children acquire language so quickly? Is language innate or learned? She explains the pioneering work of Noam Chomsky; how children become acclimatized to speech rhythms before birth; the acquisition of verbs; construction and cognitive grammar; and aphasia and dementia. She also considers new topics such as language and evolution and the possibility of a 'language gene', bringing the field right up to date. Jean Aitchison was Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford from 1993 to 2003, and is now an Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. She is the author of numerous books on language and gave the 1996 BBC Reith lectures on the topic of 'The Language Web'.

Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage! not the answers you'd expect to the question 'what happens when you become a linguist'? But now, reflecting on a long and hugely successful career at the forefront of the field of English Language and Linguistics, David Crystal answers this question and offers us a special look behind the scenes at the adventures, rewards, challenges and pitfalls of his life in language. Both an autobiography and a highly accessible introduction to the field of linguistics, "Just a Phrase I'm Going Through" illuminates and entertains us with its many insights into the ever-fascinating subject of language. David Crystal is synonymous with language, both as a great populariser and linguistic pioneer, and his contribution to the field is unparalleled. This is a book not just for students and teachers but for all lovers of language.

本书以现存的相关的汉语闽南方言与卡斯蒂时亚语（西班牙语基础语）接触材料，从各个角度探讨两种语言的初期接触情况，并进行语言学与历史学的背景的分析。附录为存世的闽南语与卡斯蒂里亚语的对照词汇集。

《新潮汕字典(普通话潮州话对照)》特点：新：全新编排。以新的思路，按照国家最新的有关规范，并采用新的研究成果进行编写；接纳新字，广收新义，择用新词。潮：体现潮州话和潮汕文化的特点。既收录潮州话口语的音读和义项，也收录与普通话有一定区别的口语复音词或短语，对地方特点比较突出的一些文化现象也专门列出词条，对潮州话与普通话在竿昔、字义和用法等方面的差异作了提示或比较。便：查检方便。安排了4种检字法，正文安排了互见，对部首的确定提出了具体的操作方法，装帧上也充分考虑了使用的需要，便于查找检索。学：着眼于学习的需要。收字11400多个，重点反映语言事买，也适当引导规范。

According to Bickerton, the behavioral sciences have failed to give an adequate account of human nature at least partly because of the conjunction and mutual reinforcement of two widespread beliefs: that language is simply a means of communication and that human intelligence is the result of the rapid growth and unusual size of human brains. Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of language. In essence, language arose as a representational system, not a means of communication or a skill, and not a product of culture but an evolutionary adaptation. The author stresses the necessity of viewing intelligence in evolutionary terms, seeing it not as problem solving but as a way of maintaining homeostasis - the preservation of those conditions most favorable to an organism, the optimal achievable conditions for survival and well-being. The term protolanguage is used to describe the stringing together of symbols that prehuman hominids employed. "It did not allow them to turn today's imagination into tomorrow's fact. But it is just this power to transform imagination into fact that distinguishes human behavior from that of our ancestral species, and indeed from that of all other species. It is exactly what enables us to change our behavior, or invent vast ranges of new behavior, practically overnight, with no concomitant genetic changes." Language and Human Behavior should be of interest to anyone in the behavioral and evolutionary sciences and to all those concerned with the role of language in human behavior.

内容简介
作者在传统语法理论的基础上，汇
集了当代语法学科的最新成果，按
照语法的内在规律和读者的认识规
律，采取由简到繁、循序递进、层层
扩展、互参对比、逐步深化的方式，把
纷繁的内容编得条理明晰，通俗易
懂。本书取例，以口语体的实例为
主，以词、短语、分句的形式为分类
依据，在理论和方法上，博采众长，不
偏一家之论，因此，比较圆满地解决
了英语语法研究中不少长期未决的
问题。

《小儿锦研究（共3册）》为三卷，《小儿锦研究——历史、文字与文献》为第一卷。小儿锦是在我国中西部地区部分信奉伊斯兰教少数民族，特别是回族下层群众中使用的一种以波斯/阿拉伯文字拼写汉语的文字，是汉文化与伊斯兰文化交往的结晶。随着社会的发展，这种文字已成为濒临灭亡的少数民族文化遗产。本书第一部分围绕回回语言文字学史，从小儿锦简介和研究现状、回回文化渊源和语文学史、回回人的本土化历程、小儿锦产生之前的波斯语使用、小儿锦的创制背景和条件、历史上的词汇编纂等方面作了全面论述，并从表意词的角度对小儿锦进行了创新的解读。为说明第二三部分词源的背景和编纂问题，第一部分还介绍了资料的汇集、词典的体例等具体问题。本书是作者刘迎胜长期比较全面系统研究小儿锦文字的重要成果，是国内该领域研究方面的力作。
《小儿锦研究——词源》为简明小儿锦—汉文—波斯/阿拉伯文词源研究，主要收录整理了作者收集的西北地区回族民间经堂教育所编各种词汇，按小儿锦字母排序。各词条包含几个基本要素：小儿锦原字、对应汉字、阿拉伯/波斯语、英译、词汇来源，其中有的还包括一些次级要素。在编写上不但体现小儿锦与对应汉字之间的关系，也体现经堂教育中使用小儿锦注释波斯文/阿拉伯文经典时所接受的伊斯兰文化的内容。

《手势创造与语言起源:离群聋人自创手语调查研究》讲述游顺钊决心在法国开拓聋人手语的研究，原因之一，是由于他对事物的奥秘和起源（包括语言的起源）很好奇。当然，事实上并不主要是兴趣、爱好的问题，他对当时语言学界的研究情况有自己的看法。他认为，人类的语言现象，是一种涉及许多方面和众多领域的复杂的社会、生理现象，然而历来的语言研究，过分偏重听觉方面，只顾舌头和耳朵，忽略了视觉方面，不顾眼睛和双手。他觉得这种偏颇给语言研究的深入造成了障碍。有个问题常引起他思考：聋人历来用手势表达和交际，然而为什么很少有人对他们的表达系统发生兴趣呢？不少人对聋人及他们的表达系统缺乏了解，甚至有误解。

本书以梁启超在中日近代词汇交流中的作用与影响为主要研究目的，全面考察了梁启超所著《饮冰室合集》中出现的日语借词，并在调查、分析的基础上，弄清梁启超在日语借词带入现代汉语过程中发挥的作用。
本书主要分为近代中国人的日语观、日语借词在梁启超作品中的出处及其特征、出现在梁启超作品中的日语借词的“性格”，梁启超用词被《汉语大词典》所收录的实际情况，四个部分。

中国少数民族文字珍稀典籍汇编》全书共28册，按字源谱系收入自源文字的纳西东巴文、彝文；来自于婆罗米字母体系的藏文、八思巴文、傣文；来自阿拉伯字母体系的察哈台文；来自阿拉美字母体系的蒙文、满文；来自于汉字体系的西夏文、壮文、水书、布依文、契丹文、女真文等少数民族古籍文献。基本反映了我国少数民族文字古籍的整体性，体现了中华民族文化多元一体的特征和丰富多彩的文化遗产。

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The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes, foot; primus, first; plenus, full). Although Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan have long been regarded as related, the systematic exploration of their shared history has never before been attempted. Tracing the history of these three languages using just such sound laws, this book sheds light on the prehistoric language from which they descend. Written for readers with little linguistic knowledge of these languages, but fully explicit and copiously indexed for the specialist, this work will serve as the bedrock for future progress in the study of these languages.
A 'one-stop shop' for Sino-Tibetan linguistics
Assumes no prior knowledge of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, ideal for readers with little linguistic knowledge of these languages to swiftly understand the research
Specialists will find the evidence presented useful as a reference work for their own research questions

《缅甸语与汉藏语系比较研究》主要通过缅甸语与汉藏语系语言在语音、词汇、语法、方言和文字等方面作全方位的共时和历时的比较研究，发现汉藏语系中语言的变化有着共同的规律。如：汉藏语系语言的语音变化有着许多共同的趋向；复辅音声母的演变影响到声调和韵母的变化；辅音韵尾和韵母的变化促使声调的产生和发展；形态变化和构词法的异同反映了汉藏语系语言的特点；分析型的语法手段之一的助词在不同语言之间的变化有着许多共性和特性等等。书中还就汉藏语系研究的理论和方法提出了作者自己的见解。《缅甸语与汉藏语系比较研究》还通过语言、方言、文字和文化的比较研究，揭示了汉藏语系有关民族的产生和发展，文化的传承、交流和融合的史实。

This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained. Constructions at Work is divided into three parts: in the first Professor Goldberg provides an overview of constructionist approaches, including the constructionist approach to argument structure, and argues for a usage-based model of grammar. In Part II she addresses issues concerning how generalizations are constrained and constructional generalizations are learned. In Part III the author shows that a combination of function and processing accounts for a wide range of language-internal and cross-linguistic generalizations. She then considers the degree to which the function of constructions explains their distribution and examines cross-linguistic tendencies in argument realization. She demonstrates that pragmatic and cognitive processes account for the data without appeal to stipulations that are language-specific.This book is an important contribution to the study of how language operates in the mind and in the world and how these operations relate. It is of central interest for scholars and graduate-level students in all branches of theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. It will also appeal to cognitive scientists and philosophers concerned with language and its acquisition.

Icelandic is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order, clause structure, agreement patterns and case system arousing much theoretical interest and debate in recent years. This is an informative and accessible guide to the structure of Icelandic, focusing in particular on those characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research. Each chapter is divided into two main sections - providing both a descriptive overview and a discussion of the theoretical and comparative issues involved - and a wide range of topics are covered, including case, agreement, grammatical relations, thematic roles, word order, clause structure, fronting, extraposition, complement, adjuncts, pronouns, and inflection. Also explored in detail are the similarities and differences between Icelandic and other related languages. Presupposing only a basic knowledge of syntax and complete with an extensive bibliography, this comprehensive survey will be an important tool for all those working on the structure of Scandinavian and Germanic languages.