1. The origins and the evolution of language / Salikoko S. Mufwene

2. The history of writing as a history of linguistics / Peter T. Daniels

3. History of the study of gesture / Adam Kendon

4. The history of sign language linguistics / Bencie Woll

5. Orthography and the early history of phonetics / Michael K.C. MacMahon

6. From IPA to Praat and beyond / Deborah Loakes

7. Nineteenth-century study of sound change from Rask to Saussure / Kate Burridge

8. Discoverers of the phoneme / Harry van der Hulst

9. A history of sound symbolism / Margaret Magnus

10. East Asian linguistics / Karen Steffen Chung

11. Linguistics in India / Peter M. Scharf

12. From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic / Edward Lipinski

13. From Plato to Priscian : philosophy's legacy to grammar / Catherine Atherton and David Blank

14. Pedagogical grammars before the eighteenth century / Anneli Luhtala

15. Vernaculars and the idea of a standard language / Andrew Linn

16. Word-based morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP (Word and Paradigm Models) / James P. Blevins

17. General or universal grammar from Plato to Chomsky / Jaap Maat

18. American descriptivism (`Structuralism') / James P. Blevins

19. Noam Chomsky's contribution to linguistics : a sketch / Robert Freidin

20. European linguistics since Saussure / Giorgio Graffi

21. Functional and cognitive grammars / Anna Siewierska

22. Lexicography from earliest times to the present / Patrick Hanks

23. The logico-philosophical tradition / Pieter A.M. Seuren

24. Lexical semantics from speculative etymology to structuralist semantics / Dirk Geeraerts

25. Post-structuralist and cognitive approaches to meaning / Dirk Geeraerts

26. A brief sketch of the historic development of pragmatics / Jacob L. Mey

27. Meaning in texts and contexts / Linda R. Waugh ... [et al.]

28. Comparative, historical, and typological linguistics since the eighteenth century / Kurt R. Jankowsky

29. Language, culture, and society / Ana Deumert

30. Language, the mind, and the brain / Alan Garnham

31. Translation : the intertranslatability of languages ; Translation and language teaching / Kirsten Malmkjær

32. Computational linguistics / Graeme Hirst

33. The history of corpus linguistics / Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie

34. Philosophy of linguistics / Esa Itkonen.