This invaluable work is the most innovative and up-to-date multilingual
glossary of linguistics available. Written by Carlos Soreto, author of several
works on the subject, the book provides informative entries across the
whole field of linguistics and the language sciences in major languages as
English, German, French, and Portuguese. With headwords ranging from
allophone and zoonyme to Aramaic and Zulu, this glossary is an ideal
reference for students and the linguist who wishes to read the works
of foreign scholars, as well as for anyone with an interest in language and its
study.
- Over 5,900 updated entries from phonetics to semantics in major languages
- Grammatical terms from classical Greek to generative grammar
- World-wide coverage of language names and their standard ISO codes