Linguistics: An Introduction

William McGregor

A&C Black, Mar 15, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 384 pages

Linguistics is a fresh and contemporary introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. Firmly based around taught courses and catering to student needs, it addresses all the topics that a student will need in their initial and subsequent study of language. With key terms, further reading, questions at the end of each chapter, exercises and key paragraphs in stand-out boxes, this is a firmly pedagogic text that takes difficult concepts and explains them in an easy to understand way, with examples taken from a range of languages across the world. Global in its scope and comprehensive in its coverage, this is the textbook of choice for linguistics students.

Contents

• 1 Introduction: 1
• LANGUAGE SYSTEM AND STRUCTURE: 25
• LANGUAGE A HUMAN PHENOMENON: 153
• LANGUAGE UNIFORMITY AND DIVERSITY: 247
• Glossary: 327
• References: 357
• Language Index: 371
• Name Index: 375
• Subject Index: 377

About the author

Professor William B. McGregor is at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published over a dozen books, including Semiotic Grammar (OUP, 1997) and The Languages of the Kimberly, Western Australia (Routledge, 2004). He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Linguistics: An Introduction; Linguistics: An Introduction
• Author: William McGregor
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: A&C Black, 2009
• ISBN: 1847063675, 9781847063670
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General