Preface by Halliday 王宗炎序 Preface by Chomsky 沈家煊序 導讀 List of contributors Preface 1 Orinins of Language ANDREW CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY 2 Language of the World BERNARD COMRIE 3 Wrting Sysems PETER T.DANIELS 4 The History of Linguistics LYLE CAMPBELL 5 Historical Linguistics BRIAND D.JOSEPH 6 Field Linguistics PAMELA MUNRO 7 Linguistic phonetics JOHN LAVER 8 Morphology ANDREW SPENCER 10 The Lexicon D.A.CRUSE 11 Syntax MARK C.BAKER 12 Generative Grammar THOMAS WASOW 13 Functional Linguistics FOBERT D.VAN VALIN,JR 14 Typology WILLIAM CROFT 15 An Introduction to formal Semantics SHALOM LAPPIN 16 Pragmatics:Language and Communication RUTH KEMPSON 17 Discourse Analysis AGNES WEIYUN HE 18 Linguistics and Literature NIGEL FABB 19 First Language Acquistion BRIAN MACWHINNEY 20 Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition:One Person with Two Languages VIVIAN COOK 21 Multilingualism SUZANNE ROMAAINE 22 Natural Sign Languages WENDY SANDLER and DIANE LILLO-MARTIN 23 Sociolinguistics FLORIAN COULMAS 24 Neurolinguistics DAVID CAPLAN 25 Computational Linguistics RICHARD SPROAT,CHRISTER SAMUELSSON,JENNIFER CHU-CARROLL,and BOB CARPENTER 26 Applied Linguistics JANIE REES-MILLER …… Bibiogyaphy Index 文庫索引