Many “histories” of linguistics have been written over the last two hundred years, and since the 1970s linguistic historiography has become a specialized subfield, with conferences, professional organizations, and journals of its own. Works on the history of linguistics often had such goals as defending a particular school of thought, promoting nationalism in various countries, or focussing on ...

An emerging field of study among evangelica ls goes by the name modern linguistics. Its terminology, self-appraisal, approach to language analysis, and relationship to traditional exegesis furnish an introduction to a comparison with grammatical-historical hermeneutics. Indispensable to an analysis of modern linguistics is a grasping of its preunderstanding—its placing of the language of the Bi...

Chapter 2: Phonetics and Phonology ......................................................................................... 6 Chapter 3: Morphology ............................................................................................................ 18 Chapter 4: Syntax ..................................................................................................................... ...

Corpora have been put to many different uses in fields as varied as natural language processing, critical discourse analysis and applied linguistics, to mention just a few. As is to be expected, within each of those areas corpora fulfil different roles, from providing data to build statistical machine translation systems to revealing ideological stance in politicallysensitive texts. ‘Corpus lin...