Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction

LINGUISTICS FOR EVERYONE, 2E, International Edition connects the study of linguistics to the language you use every day. The text is very user-friendly: casual writing style, logical presentation of material, balance of theoretical and practical, entertaining information, and lots of ideas and activ...

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Main Authors: Denham, Kristin E.,œd1967-, Lobeck, Anne C (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication is not identified] Wadsworth, Cencage Learning 2013
Edition:Second edition
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505 0 |a What is language and how do we study it -- The human capacity for language -- Phonetics: describing sounds -- Phonology: the sound patterns of language -- Morphology: words and their parts -- Morphological typology and word formation -- Syntax: heads and phrases -- Syntax: phrase structure and syntactic rules -- Semantics: making meaning with words -- Semantics and pragmatics: making meaning with sentences -- The early story of English -- English goes global -- Representing language: the written word -- The life cycle of language 
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