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Linguistics: A Complete Introduction
A teaching text for the undergraduate and the curious general reader. Twenty-four chapters from phonetics to sociolinguistics.
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00Cover1 min01Title1 min02Dedication1 min03About the author1 min04Acknowledgements1 min05Preface1 min06How to use this book1 min071 Thinking like a linguist25 min082 A brief history of linguistic thought25 min093 Structural linguistics22 min104 The building blocks of language: describing speech sounds19 min115 Laying the foundations: sound systems in language28 min126 Building words: morphology27 min137 A grammar of sentences: syntax22 min148 The Chomskyan revolution: generative grammar23 min159 Semantics: the meaning of ‘meaning’22 min1610 Pragmatics: saying what you mean27 min1711 Exploring variation in language23 min1812 Choosing your language: multilingualism and language planning25 min1913 Mechanisms of language change25 min20Fact-check answers2 min21Taking it further8 min22Copyright2 min23About kaOS1 min