An electronic version of the 14 volume reference work, providing comprehensive, high quality, authoritative, and up-to-date information on the field of linguisitics. Includes newly commissioned articles as well as a handful of classic articles from the first edition, over 3,000 articles in all. The online version exploits the multimedia potential of linguistics, providing supplementary audio, video and text files online.

Encompasses a range of topics in linguistics, including areassuch as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. Attention is given to interrelations within these branches of the field and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines.