Contemporary linguistics : an introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Grady, William D. (William Delaney), 1952- (ed.), Dobrovolsky, Michael (ed.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martins Press, 1993.
Edition:2nd ed. /
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Language : a preview
  • Phonetics : the sounds of language
  • Phonology : the function and patterning of sounds
  • Morphology : the study of word structure
  • Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure
  • Semantics : the study of meaning
  • Historical linguistics : the study of language change
  • The classification of languages
  • Brain and language
  • Language acquisition : the emergence of a grammar
  • Second language acquisition
  • Language in social contexts
  • Writing and language
  • Animal communication
  • Computational linguistics.