Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics

Keith Brown (ed.)0080442994

The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as “the field’s standard reference work for a generation”. Now the all-new second edition matches ELL’s comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics.

• The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
• An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles
• The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition
• Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach
• Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing
• Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop

ELL2 includes:
• c. 7,500,000 words
• c. 11,000 pages
• c. 3,000 articles
• c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour
• Supplementary audio, video and text files online
• c. 3,500 glossary definitions
• c. 39,000 references
• Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations
• List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.)
• Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists)
• 200 language maps in print and online