Introducing English Linguistics International Student EditionA genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad overview of the subject that sustains students' interest and avoids excessive detail. It takes a top-down approach to language beginning with the largest unit of linguistic structure, the text, and working its way down through successively smaller structures. |
Contents
Why languages change | 19 |
Typological classifications of languages | 34 |
3 | 47 |
Summary | 76 |
English syntax | 111 |
Structure and meaning | 149 |
The sounds of English | 195 |
Linguistic corpora consulted | 219 |
Answers to selfstudy activities | 239 |
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Common terms and phrases
addition adjective adverb affixes American English auxiliary Cambridge chair chapter clause functions cohesion common consonants constituents constructions contains context conversation Corpus define definitions deixis describe dictionaries direct object discussion example expression free morpheme gender Germanic grammar guage hypernym hyponym ICE-GB individual Indo-European languages inflections instance kinds language change language death language family Latin lexical semantics lexical verb lexicographers linguistic main clause manner of articulation marked marker maxim meaning MICASE Modern English morphemes notion noun phrase occur Old English participle past tense person pronouns phonemes place of articulation plural pragmatic predicator prepositional phrase primary stress pronunciation reference SBCSAE semantics singular social sound speak speakers of English specific speech act spoken structure sub-registers subject complement subordinate clause suffixes syntax tion tone unit tonic syllable typically utterance verb phrase vocabulary voiced vowel word order writing