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Beginning Linguistics Paperback – 11 May 2012
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In this core textbook, Laurie Bauer's engaging style brings linguistics to life and introduces readers to the fundamentals of the subject. Each essential area of linguistics is dealt with in turn, thereby providing readers with a clear and comprehensive overview of all the core topics, including semantics, syntax, phonology and pragmatics.
Alongside definitions of key terms and explanations of how various issues slot together, this text also empowers readers by teaching them how to apply their knowledge to new data. Richly illustrated with examples from multiple languages and packed with interactive activities, this user-friendly book helps readers to master the basics and sets them up for further study in the field.
This is an invaluable resource for those studying linguistics for the very first time. Equally, it provides a firm reference point for those with more experience in the field.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRed Globe Press
- Publication date11 May 2012
- Dimensions15.6 x 1.88 x 23.39 cm
- ISBN-100230231705
- ISBN-13978-0230231702
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"This engaging and accessible textbook gives a solid introduction to linguistics by drawing on data from a wide range of languages. It teaches linguistics at the same time as it teaches how to do linguistics and it will be extremely useful for my classes." - Gisela Hakansson, Professor of Linguistics, Lund University, Sweden"
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- Publisher : Red Globe Press; 1st edition (11 May 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0230231705
- ISBN-13 : 978-0230231702
- Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.88 x 23.39 cm
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Spends about 90 pages on phonology.
Reduplication is interesting, but nine pages in an introductory text!
Tree diagrams from a Chomsky perspective