Peter Matthews
3,000 entries
This is the most authoritative and up to date dictionary of linguistics available. It provides concise, informative entries across the whole field, ranging from phonetics to formal semantics, epiglottal and morpheme to Austronesian and Navajo. It also includes grammatical terms in English and grammatical categories in other languages, and gives world-wide coverage of language families and major languages.
Important figures and ideas in linguistics are covered alongside the theory of language and language history.
Peter Matthews is Professor of Linguistics at Cambridge University, and author of many books on linguistics, including Morphology, and Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky.
