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Somewhat devastating end to a book review of a yet another linguistics handbook, The Cambridge Handbook of #Chinese #Linguistics": "The minority of valuable contributions resemble a party of respectable out-of-towners looking for dinner who have wandered by mistake into a dive."
https://linguistlist.org/issues/34/1786/
linguistlist.org LINGUIST List 34.1786 Review: General Linguistics: Huang, Lin, Chen (eds.) (2022) The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
@demeco_project "The book is essentially a collection of research articles intended to be read by other researchers in their respective areas, of a kind that might more commonly be found in specialized journals rather than gathered into a book."
The whole idea of a Handbook has been gradually watered down over the past several decades. What kind of handbook has thirty chapters?