Linguistics for everyone : an introduction
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Australia :
Wadsworth Cengage Learning ,
c2013
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is language and how do we study it?
- 2. The human capacity for language
- 3. Phonetics : describing sounds
- 4. Phonology : the sound patterns of language
- 5. Morphology : words and their parts
- 6. Morphological typology and word formation
- 7. Syntax : heads and phrases
- 8. Syntax : phrase structure and syntactic rules
- 9. Semantic : making meaning with words
- 10. Semantic and pragmatics : making meaning with sentences
- 11. The early story of English
- 12. English goes global
- 13. Representing language : the written word
- 14. The life cycle of language