| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Guides to Linguistics Ser |
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Routledge Guides to Linguistics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Why read this book?; Introduction to the book; Who this book is for; How to use this book; 2 Questions linguists ask; What is linguistics?; What is language?; Human language versus other animal communication systems; What is a language?; Language variation: languages and dialects; Language change; What does it mean to know a language?; Our linguistic intuitions; Linguistic competence and linguistic performance; What is grammar?; Our knowledge of grammar |
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Prescriptive and descriptive grammarUniversal Grammar; First language acquisition; Christopher the linguistic savant; Contact languages and language genesis; How do we study language scientifically?; Gathering and analyzing data: the scientific method; An example of scientific inquiry: english wh-question formation; Exploring data from other languages; References; 3 The study of sound: Phonetics and phonology; Articulatory phonetics; Phonological rules; Auditory phonetics; Allophones and phonemes; Syllables; Stress; Tone and intonation; Why study sound?; References |
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4 The study of words: MorphologyMorphemes; Derivational and inflectional affixation; Expanding inflectional morphology; Word trees; Types of categories; Table 4.2 Content word categories with examples; Table 4.3 Function word categories with examples; Morphological typologies; What is a word?; Why study words?; References; 5 The study of sentence structure: Syntax; Revisiting syntactic categories; Phrase structure; Hierarchical structure and recursion; Syntactic ambiguity; Syntactic typologies; Movement; Deletion; Morphosyntax; Why study sentence structure?; References |
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6 The study of meaning: Semantics and pragmaticsSemantic relationships among words; Metaphor and figurative language; Semantic relationships among sentences; How sound and structure influence meaning; How context shapes meaning: pragmatics; Maxims of conversation; Presupposition; Politeness; Speech acts; Why study meaning?; References; 7 Studying language change: Historical linguistics; The study of language in the eighteenth century; The comparative method and language family trees; Proto-Indo-European; 1535107714027_80; Other language families; Types of language change; Morphological change |
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Phonological change (sound change)Semantic change; Syntactic change; Why languages change; Natural processes of language change; Language acquisition; Language contact; Social identity; Why study language change?; References; 8 Studying language variation: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and region; Dialectology and lexical variation; Phonological variation; Factors affecting sound variation; Morphological variation; Syntactic variation; Language attitudes and linguistic discrimination; Language policy and planning; Why study language variation?; References |
| Notes |
9 Studying language in the brain: Psycholinguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lobeck, Anne
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| ISBN |
9780429815645 |
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0429815646 |
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9780429815638 |
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0429815638 |
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9780429815621 |
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042981562X |
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9780429444623 |
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0429444621 |
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