Education: Language - General

Most comprehensive resource for studies in the field of language and linguistics. Extensive authored entries that contain bibliographies. Volume 14 contains Glossary, Lit of Languages, Language Maps, List of Abbreviations, Subject Classification, and a Subject Index

Online Database: The OED is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Worldly in its scope, this encyclopedia discusses the relationship between language and linguistics to religion(s). Sections - Language in the Context of Particular Religions - Sacred Texts and Translations - Religious Languages and Scripts - Special Language Uses - Beliefs About Language - Religion and the Study of Language -Biographies. Articles are authored and contain bibliographies. The encyclopedia includes a glossary of terms, a name and subject index.

"..emphasis is on Indo-European, over half the book being devoted to that family. Each of the 50 chapters is written by an expert in that field. Phonology, morphology, and syntax are discussed, and, where appropriate, the writing system. Some chapters, such as that on Chinese, are very lucid and accessible to the non-expert; others are more difficult."