Multilingual Glossary of Linguistics

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