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Blackwell Reference Online: The Handbook of LinguisticsSayfa 1 / 1Title InformationThe Handbook of LinguisticsEdited by: Mark Aronoff And Janie Rees-MillereISBN: 9781405102520Print publication date: 2002.xPresupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook ofLinguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn aboutthe subject and its subdisciplines.Written by globally recognized leading figures, this Handbookprovides a comprehensive and accessible account of the field oflinguistics. It begins with a general overview that considers theorigins of language, frames the discipline within its historicalcontext, and looks at how linguists acquire new data. It then turns tothe traditional subdisciplines of linguistics.This authoritative Handbook provides a broad yet de tailed picture ofwhat is known about language today.Cite this titleAronoff, Mark And Janie Rees-Miller (Eds). The Handbook ofLinguistics. Blackwell Publishing, 2002. Blackwell Reference Online.The Handbook of Linguistics30 November 2007 id g9781405102520 9781405102520 http://www.blackwellreference.com/subscriber/uid 532/book?id g9781405102520 9. 30.11.2007

Contributors : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 1 / 05102520.2002.00001.xFrank AnshenState University of New York, Stony BrookMark C. BakerRutgers UniversityLyle CampbellUniversity of CanterburyDavid CaplanNeuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General HospitalBob CarpenterSpeech WorksAndrew Carstairs-McCarthyUniversity of CanterburyJennifer Chu-CarrollBell LaboratoriesAbigail CohnCornell UniversityBernard ComrieMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyVivian CookUniversity of EssexFlorian CoulmasGerhard Mercator UniversityWilliam CroftUniversity of ManchesterD. A. CruseUniversity of ManchesterDavid CrystalUniversity College of North Wales, BangorPeter T. DanielsIndependent scholarNigel id 532/tocnode?id g9781405102520. 30.11.2007

Contributors : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 2 / 3University of StrathclydeJames Paul GeeUniversity of Wisconsin at MadisonChristoph GutknechtUniversity of HamburgBrian D. JosephThe Ohio State UniversityRuth KempsonKing's College, LondonShalom LappinKing's College, LondonJohn LaverUniversity of EdinburghDiane Lillo-MartinUniversity of Connecticut and Haskins LaboratoriesBrian MacWhinneyCarnegie Mellon UniversityPamela MunroUniversity of California, Los AngelesJanie Rees-MillerMarietta CollegeSuzanne RomaineMerton College, University of OxfordChrister SamuelssonXerox Research Center, EuropeWendy SandlerUniversity of HaifaRoger W. ShuyGeorgetown UniversityAndrew SpencerUniversity of EssexRichard SproatAT&T ResearchRebecca TreimanWayne State UniversityRobert D. Van Valin, JrState University of New York at BuffaloThomas WasowStanford UniversityAgnes Weiyun HeState University of New York, Stony BrookCite this article"Contributors." The Handbook of Linguistics . Aronoff, Mark and Janie Rees-Miller (eds). Blackw ell Publishing,2002. Blackwell Reference Online. 30 November id 532/tocnode?id g9781405102520. 30.11.2007

Contributors : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 3 / 3 de?id g9781405102520 chunk g97814051025201 Bibliographic DetailsThe Handbook of LinguisticsEdited by: Mark Aronoff And Janie Rees-MillereISBN: 9781405102520Print publication date: id 532/tocnode?id g9781405102520. 30.11.2007

Preface : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 1 / 520.2002.00002.xFor over a century, linguists have been trying to explain linguistics to other people who they believeshould be interested in their subject matter. After all, everyone speaks at least one language and mostpeople have fairly strong views about their own language. The most distinguished scholars in everygeneration have written general books about language and linguistics targeted at educated laypeopleand at scholars in adjacent disciplines, and some of these books have become classics, at least amonglinguists. The first great American linguist, William Dwight Whitney, published The Life and Growth ofLanguage: An Outline of Linguistic Science, in 1875. In the dozen years between 1921 and 1933 , thethree best known English-speaking linguists in the world (Edward Sapir in 1921, Otto Jespersen in1922, and Leonard Bloomfield in 1933) all wrote boo ks under the title Language. All were verysuccessful and continued to be reprinted for many years. In our own time, Noam Chomsky, certainlythe most famous of theoretical linguists, has tried to make his ideas on language more accessible insuch less technical books as Language and Mind (1968) and Reflections on Language (1975). Andmore recently, Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct (1995) stayed on the best-seller list for manymonths.Despite these efforts, linguistics has not made many inroads into educated public discourse. Althoughlinguists in the last hundred years have uncovered a great deal about human language and how it isacquired and used, the advances and discoveries are still mostly unknown outside a small group ofpractitioners. Many reasons have been given for this gap between academic and public thinking aboutlanguage, the most commonly cited reasons being: that people have strong and sometimes erroneousviews about language and have little interest in being disabused of their false beliefs; or that peopleare too close to language to be able to see that it has interesting and complex properties. Whateverthe reason, the gap remains and is getting larger the more we learn about language.The Handbook of Linguistics is a general introductory volume designed to address this gap inknowledge about language. Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, it is intended for peoplewho would like to know what linguistics and its subdisciplines are about. The book was designed tobe as nontechnical as possible, while at the same time serving as a repository for what is known aboutlanguage as we enter the twenty-first century.If The Handbook of Linguistics is to be regarded as authoritative, this will be in large part because ofthe identity of the authors of the chapters. We have recruited globally recognized leading figures towrite each of the chapters. While the culture of academia is such that academic authors find ittremendously difficult to write anything for anyone other than their colleagues, our central editorialgoal has been to avoid this pitfall. Our emphasis on the reader's perspective sets The Handbook ofLinguistics apart from other similar projects.The place of the field of linguistics in academia has been debated since its inception. When we look atuniversities, we may find a linguistics department in either the social sciences or the humanities.When we look at the American government agencies that fund university research, we find that theNational Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the National iber/uid 532/tocnode?id g9781405102520. 30.11.2007

Preface : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 2 / 3of Health all routinely award grants for research in linguistics. So where does linguistics belong? Theanswer is not in where linguistics is placed administratively, but rather in how linguists think. Here theanswer is quite clear: linguists by and large view themselves as scientists and they view their field as ascience, the scientific study of language. This has been true since the nineteenth century, when MaxMueller could entitle a book published in 1869 The Science of Language and the first chapter of thatbook “The science of language one of the physical sciences.”The fact that linguistics is today defined as the scientific study of language carries with it the implicitclaim that a science of language is possible, and this alone takes many by surprise. For surely, theysay, language, like all human activity, is beyond the scope of true science. Linguists believe that theirfield is a science because they share the goals of scientific inquiry, which is objective (or moreproperly intersubjectively accessible) understanding. Once we accept that general view of science as akind of inquiry, then it should be possible to have a science of anything, so long as it is possible toachieve intersubjectively accessible understanding of that thing. There are, of course, those who denythe possibility of such scientific understanding of anything, but we will not broach that topic here.We now know that the possibility of scientific understanding depends largely on the complexity andregularity of the object of study. Physics has been so successful because the physical world is,relatively speaking, highly regular and not terribly complex. Human sciences, by contrast, have beenmuch less successful and much slower to produce results, largely because human behavior is socomplex and not nearly so regular as is the physical or even the biological world. Language, though,contrasts with other aspects of human behavior precisely in its regularity, what has been called itsrule-governed nature. It is precisely this property of language and language-related behavior that hasallowed for fairly great progress in our understanding of this delimited area of human behavior.Furthermore, the fact that language is the defining property of humans, that it is shared across allhuman communities and is manifested in no other species, means that by learning about language wewill inevitably also learn about human nature.Each chapter in this book is designed to describe to the general reader the state of our knowledge atthe beginning of the twenty-first century of one aspect of human language. The authors of eachchapter have devoted most of their adult lives to the study of this one aspect of language. Together,we believe, these chapters provide a broad yet deta iled picture of what is known about language aswe move into the new millennium. The chapters are each meant to be free-standing. A reader who isinterested in how children acquire language, for example, should be able to turn to chapter 19 andread it profitably without having to turn first to other chapters for assistance. But the physical natureof a book entails that there be an order of presentation. We begin with general overview chapters thatconsider the origins of language as species-specific behavior and describe the raw material withwhich linguists work (languages of the world and writing systems), frame the discipline within itshistorical context, and look at how linguists acquire new data from previously undescribed languages(field linguistics). The book then turns to the traditional subdisciplines of linguistics. Here we havefollowed most linguistics books in starting from the bottom, grounding language first in the physicalworld of sound (phonetics) and moving up through the organization of sound in language(phonology), to the combination of sounds into words (morphology), and the combination of wordsinto sentences (syntax). Meaning (semantics) usually comes next, on the grounds that it operates onwords and sentences. These areas are traditionally said to form the core of linguistics, because theydeal with the most formally structured aspects of language. Within the last few decades, however,linguists have come to realize that we cannot understand the most formally structured aspects oflanguage without also understanding the way language is used to convey information (pragmatics) inconversation (discourse) and in literature, and the way language interacts with other aspects ofsociety (sociolinguistics).Fifty years ago, many of our chapters would have been absent from a book of this sort for the simplebut dramatic reason that these fields of inquiry did not exist: language acquisition, multilingualism,sign language, neurolinguistics, computational linguistics, and all of the areas of applied linguistics towhich we have devoted separate chapters (the one area of applied linguistics that did exist fifty yearsago was language teaching).The chapters are of a uniform length, approximately 10,000 words each, or about 25 printed pages.This length is substantial enough for a major essay, while being short enough so as not to ber/uid 532/tocnode?id g9781405102520. 30.11.2007

Preface : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 3 / 3the reader. Applied linguistics is divided into several distinct areas that would be of interest tostudents and others who want to know what practical applications linguistics has. Because each of theapplied linguistics chapters covers a more specialized area, these chapters are somewhat shorter thanthe rest (approximately 4,000 words each, or about 10 printed pages).We have tried not to emphasize ideology, but rather to divide things up by empirical criteria having todo with the sorts of phenomena that a given field of inquiry covers. We have thought long and hardabout whether some of the major areas, especially syntax and phonology, should be broken downfurther, with a chapter each on distinct theoretical approaches. Our final decision was not tosubdivide by theoretical approaches, based on a bel ief that the reader's perspective is paramount inbooks like this: readers of a companion do not want to know what the latest controversy is about orwho disagrees with whom or who said what when. Rather, they want to have a reasonable idea of whatlinguistics or some subarea of linguistics can tell them. The authors have been able to do so withoutgoing into the latest controversies, though these controversies may occupy the linguists’ everydaylives. The one area to which we have devoted more than one chapter is syntax, but this reflects thedominance of syntactic research in linguistics over the last half century.We do not see this handbook as an introductory textbook, which would, for example, have questionsor exercises at the end of each chapter. There are already enough introductory linguistics texts. Wesee it rather as an authoritative volume on what linguists know about language at the start of thetwenty-first century. Each chapter covers the central questions and goals of a particular subdiscipline,what is generally accepted as known in that area, and how it relates to other areas.When we embarked on this editorial enterprise, we expected to enjoy the interaction with many of ourmost distinguished colleagues that the preparation of this book would entail, which is so much easiernow in the age of electronic correspondence. What we did not realize was how much we would learnfrom these colleagues about language and linguistics, simply from reading their work and discussingit with them. We thank all of the authors for this wonderful opportunity and we hope that the readers,too, will share in the same great pleasure.ACKNOWLEDGMENTThe illustrations used in figures 22.2, 22.3, and 22.7 are reprinted with permission from A BasicCourse in American Sign Language, Second Edition, 1994, T.J. Publishers, Inc., Silver Spring, MD20910, USA.Cite this article"Preface." The Handbook of Linguistics . Aronoff, Mark and Janie Rees-Miller (eds). Blackw ell Publishing,2002. Blackwell Reference Online. 30 November 2007 de?id g9781405102520 chunk g97814051025202 Bibliographic DetailsThe Handbook of LinguisticsEdited by: Mark Aronoff And Janie Rees-MillereISBN: 9781405102520Print publication date: id 532/tocnode?id g9781405102520. 30.11.2007

1. Origins of Language : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 1 / 121. Origins of LanguageANDREW 0003.x1 IntroductionAmong the inhabitants of some African forests about eight million years ago were ape-like creaturesincluding the common ancestors of chimpanzees and humans. Visualizing what these creatures wereprobably like is easy enough; one conjures up an image of something resembling a modern gorilla,living substantially in trees and walking on all four limbs when on the ground, and with a vocalcommunication system limited to perhaps twenty or thirty calls, like a chimpanzee's. But what aboutour ancestors’ appearance and behavior two million years ago? By that stage they were a separatespecies from the ancestors of chimpanzees, but were not yet homo sapiens. How did these creatureslive, and in particular what sort of language did they have? Visualizing these more recent creatures isharder. One feels that they must have been more like us, and in particular that their vocalcommunication system must have been more sophisticated than that of their ancestors six millionyears earlier. But how much more sophisticated? Which characteristics of modern human language didthis communication system now possess, and which did it still lack?There is something eerie and yet fascinating about these intermediate ancestors. This fascinationunderlies innumerable science fiction stories as well as the perennial interest in rumors that suchcreatures may still exist, in some remote Himalayan valley perhaps. To many nonlinguists, therefore,it seems self-evident that research on the linguistic abilities of such intermediate ancestors (that is,research on the origins and evolution of human language) should be a high priority in linguistics. Yetit is not. As a research topic, language evolution is only now beginning to regain respectability, aftermore than a century of neglect. In the remainder of this section I will say something about the reasonsfor this neglect before turning in sections 2–5 to the evidence recently brought to bear byanthropologists, geneticists, primatologists and neurobiologists, many of whom have for decadesbeen more adventurous than linguists in this area. Then in section 6,I will discuss the kinds ofcontribution which some linguists also are now beginning to offer.Many religions provide an account of the origin of language. According to the Judeo-Christiantradition, God gave to Adam in the Garden of Eden dominion over all the animals, and Adam's firstexercise of this dominion consisted in naming them. The fact that there are now many languagesrather than just one is explained in the story of the Tower of Babel: linguistic diversity is apunishment for human arrogance. So long as that sort of account was generally accepted, the originof language was not a puzzle. But when secular explanations for natural phenomena began to besought to supplement or replace religious ones, it was inevitable that a secular explanation wassought for the origin of language too.The fact that the origin of language must predate recorded history did not inhibit eighteenth-centurythinkers such as Rousseau, Condillac, and Herder, who were confident that simply by applying one'smind to the situation in which languageless humans would find themselves one could arrive athttp://www.blackwellreference.com/subscriber/uid 532/tocnode?id g9781405102520. 30.11.2007

1. Origins of Language : The Handbook of Linguistics : Blackwell Reference OnlineSayfa 2 / 12worthwhile conclusions about how language must have arisen. Unfortunately there was no consensusamong these conclusions, and in the nineteenth century they came to seem increasingly feeble andspeculative by contrast with the far-reaching yet convincing results attainable in historical andcomparative linguistics (see chapter 5). At its found

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