| Description |
xvii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 5.Morphology -- 5.1.The legal importance of analysing words -- 5.2.The bits of words -- 5.3.Two types of affix and their implications -- 5.4.The same but different revisited -- 5.5.Phonological effects in morphology -- 5.6.Compounds -- 5.7.Where do the affixes go? (Advanced) -- 5.8.Reduplication (Advanced) -- 5.9.Summing up -- 6.Syntax -- 6.1.Why we need syntax -- 6.2.Substitution and word-classes -- 6.3.Sticking words together -- 6.4.Rules: Observed regularity returns -- 6.5.Form and function: You look familiar, but what are you doing here? -- 6.6.Ergativity (Advanced) -- 6.7.The order of sentence elements (Advanced) -- 6.8.Summing up -- 7.Pragmatics -- 7.1.The interface with the world -- 7.2.Speech acts -- 7.3.Gricean principles -- 7.4.Being polite -- 7.5.Drawing conclusions -- 7.6.Texts -- 7.7.Doing gender (Advanced) -- 7.8.Summing up -- 8.Conclusion -- 8.1.A summing up and a new start -- 8.2.Some fundamental problems in linguistics -- |
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Contents note continued: 8.3.Some problems of doing linguistics -- 8.4.Some links between modules -- 8.5.Where to go? -- 8.6.Envoi -- Appendices -- A.Glossary -- B.Languages mentioned -- C.Answers to questions -- D.Assignments and study questions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and indexes |
| Subject |
Linguistics.
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| Genre/Form |
Lehrbuch
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| LC no. |
2012022993 |
| ISBN |
9780230231696 (hardback) |
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9780230231702 (paperback) |
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0230231691 (hardback) |
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0230231705 (paperback) |
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