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LINCOM is an international academic publishing house mainly focusing on linguistics.

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LINCOM is an international academic publishing house mainly focusing on linguistics. It started in the early nineties with short descriptive grammars, emphasizing documentation of endangered languages. Today it covers a wide range of topics within the humanities, including linguistics, ethnology, phonetics, and various language studies, with an additional focus on dictionaries of lesser spoken languages.

History

LINCOM is an international academic publishing house mainly focusing on linguistics. In the early nineties LINCOM started with the publication of short descriptive grammars, emphasizing the documentation of 'endangered' languages. Today we encompass a wide range of topics within the humanities such as Linguistics, Ethnology, Phonetics, German Studies, Romance Studies, Slavic Studies, English Studies, Classical philology, African Studies, Asien Studies, Afroasiatic languages, Indo-European linguistics, Native American languages, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognition, Literature and Mathematics. An additional focus is laid on the publication of dictionaries of lesser spoken languages.

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