Linguistics: An Introduction

Front Cover
A&C Black, Mar 15, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 384 pages
0 Reviews


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.

 

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Selected pages

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
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Linguistics: An Introduction
William B. McGregor
Limited preview - 2009
Linguistics: An Introduction
William McGregor
Limited preview - 2009

Common terms and phrases

acquired adult affixes airstream airstream mechanism allomorphs allophones alveolar animals aphasia articulation Australian Australian English Austronesian borrowed bound morphemes brain Broca’s called chapter child clause clitic cognitive complementary distribution complex consonant context contrast derivational dialects distinguish dysphemism example express fricatives genetic give grammatical morphemes grammatical relations hearer human language hyponym iconic identify indicates Indo-European inflectional instance involved lexemes lexical items lexicon linguistics Mandarin Chinese meaning meronymic morphological nasal Niger-Congo nouns Nyulnyul occur ofthe parts-of-speech patterns phones phonetic phonological phrase pidgins place of articulation plural prefix produced pronouns proto-language refer role Sapir-Whorf hypothesis semantic sense sentence Sign Language single social sometimes sound change speech community speech sounds spoken stop structure suffix syllables syntactic syntax things tongue types typology utterance variation varieties velar verb vocal folds vocal tract voiceless vowel Warrwa Wernicke’s word order world’s languages

About the author (2009)

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

QR code for Linguistics: An Introduction
TitleLinguistics: An Introduction
Linguistics: An Introduction
AuthorWilliam McGregor
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherA&C Black, 2009
ISBN1847063675, 9781847063670
Length384 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan