Burridge, Kate,

For the love of language : an introduction to linguistics / Introduction to linguistics Kate Burridge, Tonya N. Stebbins. - xviii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Using Language to Expose Language': Setting the Scene: -- What is Language? -- What Linguists do -- Ways to Study Language -- 'In the Beginning was the Word': Words, Word Structure, and Meaning: -- What's in a Word? -- Morphology: The Structure of Words -- Semantic: The Meaning of Words -- 'The Deep Grooves of Language': Sounds and Grammar: -- Phonetics -- Phonetics: The Sound System -- Syntax: The Structure of Sentences -- 'Language is a Social Fact': Variation and Change: -- Variation and Identity -- Structure across Time -- Language and Cultures in Contact -- 'Language that Rolls up it's Sleeves': Language at Work: -- Language and Text -- Language and Interaction -- Language and Social Values -- 'Language is the Dress of Thought': Language, Mind and World: -- Language, the Mind and the Brain -- Language Acquisition -- Computational Linguistics. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. Part 2. 4. 5. 6. Part 3. 7. 8. 9. Part4. 10. .11. 12. Part 5. 13. 14. 15. Part 6. 16. 17. 18.

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Linguistics.
Language and languages.

P121 / .B87 2016

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