About the Author

William J. Frawley is Dean of the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Psychology, George Washington University. He was topic editor for language and linguistics for the first edition.

Reviews

'This is an excellent work...the very best in the field.' Linguistics 'All the contributors are top-rankers ... I can't imagine any encyclopedia being more successful in presenting expert opinion across such a wide spectrum of knowledge.' Richard Hudson, Journal of the US Linguistics Society