Concise Encyclopedia of languages of the World

Keith Brown was Editor-in-Chief of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier, 2006). He is now an Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge. From 2007 he has been President of the Philological Society. From 1990 to 1994 he was President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, and he has been a Member of Council of the Philological Society since 1998. He is author of Linguistics Today (Fontana, 1984) and co-author, with Jim Miller, of Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure and Syntax: Generative Grammar (Hutchinson, 1981). Keith was joint editor of Concise Encyclopedia of Linguistic Theories and Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories (Pergamon Press, 1997 and 1998), Common Denominators in Art and Science (Aberdeen University Press, 1983) and Language, Reasoning and Inference (Academic Press, 1986).