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World map of language families created by Robert Forkel with information from the Glottolog catalog and Open Street Map
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Word cloud produced using a data set of titles from dissertations at Yale about linguistics. Data set created by Rikker Dockum PhD '19.
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This is the textbook of the first linguistics course taught at Yale, and probably the first taught under the name of linguistics in the USA. In some ways it is surprisingly modern.
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For many years, Yale linguistics was at the center of linguistics in the USA. Anderson’s study talks about the key developments in the study of sound systems and the key thinkers that drove those ideas, many of whom were at Yale.
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This is the only book that presents the Quinnipiac language – the language of what is now New Haven and surrounds – in any detail. It was composed by Abraham Pierson and several Quinnipiac people in the 1650s.
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Many people think that language is changing for the worse, and ‘young people these days’ don’t speak as well as older generations. Aitchison shows what’s actually going on when languages change.
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Language is always changing. Languages change in regular ways, and we can use those changes to investigate the past. This book shows how different parts of language change in different ways, and how we can use that information to figure out how languages sounded thousands of years ago.
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Methods for studying biological evolution and language change have influenced each other over the last 150 years. This is a technical book about how to use these methods in the study of language and culture.
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This is an intricate book about the history of ASL in America, and how ASL has changed over the last 100 years.
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The chapters in this book use mathematical and computational techniques to discover commonalities in folktales from around the world, an exciting way in which oral traditions preserve human history.
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This is one of several textbooks which show the wide array of possibilities for analyzing textual data and using computers for tasks like automated machine translation.
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Absolutely everything you ever wanted to know about the linguistics of the internet. McCulloch covers everything from the grammar of emojis to the many ways in which texting is not just ‘sloppy speech’, to the generational differences in internet language use.
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This book gives us an insight into how we use metaphor and imagery and what it tells us about mental and social categorization. Though largely focused on English, the authors do discuss some variation in metaphors across the world.
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Language can also be used to study society in history, and Clackson’s book shows how the study of language can provide insights into Ancient Greek and Roman society.
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This book is a collection of essays on different facets of language, sex, and gender. It is now somewhat dated but is still a good general overview of the history of some of the major ideas over the last 50 years.
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Hill shows how language is used, both overtly and subtly, in racist ways. She covers topics such as "mock Spanish" and English-only legislation.
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Treuer’s book distills why language reclamation is important, how language is a crucial part of wellbeing, and how linguists can support language communities and their languages.