RARE collection of 79 alphabetically organised articles on grammatical categories brought together from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, all of which have been revised and updated, as well as supplemented with a number of newly commissioned articles. The authors of the articles are: R.M.W.Dixon, J.van der Auwera, G.G.Corbett, P.Sells, T.Wasow, N.Burton-Roberts, Ö.Dahl, J.Miller, C.Lehmann, S.Steele, I.Crookston, J.M.Anderson, G.K.Pullum, C.A.Craig, E.König, F.Veltman, J.Haiman, J.Caron, P.Jacobson, E.Jaworska, M.Haspelmath, C.Grover, R.A.Muskens, C.Lyons, S.Levinson,J.van Euck, D.Blackemore, P.A.M.Seuren, M.Koptjevskaja-Tamm, R.D.Van Valin Jr, M.Krifka, R.E.Longacre, E.C.Traugott, L.Bauer, A.Spencer, M.Shibatani, K.Allan, W.A.Foley, F.K.Ameka, L.Stirling, F.Kiefer, F.R.Palmer, P.Ramat, P.Muysken, W.J.de Reuse, J.R.Payne, D.A.Cruse, D.Hartmann, R.L.Trask, I.Roberts, F.Zwarts, J.R.Taylor, A.Lehrer, F.Lichtenberk, N.Fabb, D.J.Napoli, R.D.Huddleston, M.Serba, J.Verschueren, N.Vincent, B.Comrie, J.van Kuppevelt, R.Sornicola, T.Tsunoda, R.L.Humphreys, R.Cairns, A.Siewerska. Includes an introduction and a glossary. 255x190mm. XXII+485 pages. Brown Hardcover with dust-jacket. Silver lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket edges, corners and jacket spine edges wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of grammatical categories, written by leading linguists, is in very good condition.