Beginning Morphology and SyntaxThis textbook has the basic purpose of preparing students with no linguistic background to discover the grammatical structure of an unwritten language. The Americanist symbols are used. The Laboratory Manual for Morphology and Syntax, 7th ed, (revised, 2003), is a practical supplement to accompany the textbook. It contains 298 datasets of problems taken from 117 spoken languages. (IPA) symbols replaced the Americanist symbols in some datasets. |
Contents
Some semantic categories | 19 |
Tense sequence | 158 |
Field Methods | 167 |
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Beginning Morphology-syntax Benjamin Franklin Elson,Velma Pickett,Velma Bernice Pickett Snippet view - 1960 |
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