Linguistics Student's Handbook
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2021
424 pages
978-1-4744-7410-8 (ISBN)
Description
Laurie Bauer has expertly crafted a compendium of essential things for linguistics students to know - from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics. Part reference work, part revision guide, and with tables providing summary information on some 300 languages, the book provides a new learning tool as a supplement to your usual textbooks.
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The Linguistics Student's Handbook
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02/2021
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Edinburgh University Press
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Laurie Bauer
The Linguistics Student's Handbook
Book
02/2021
2nd Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Abbreviations and conventions used in the text
- Part I Some fundamentals of linguistics
- 1 Language
- 2 Accent, dialect, variety
- 3 Linguistics
- 4 Grammar
- 5 Parts of speech
- 6 Rules
- 7 The Neogrammarians
- 8 The Saussurean dichotomies
- 9 Chomsky's influence
- 10 Some recurrent themes
- 11 Form and function
- 12 Contrast and substitution
- 13 Binarity
- 14 Trees
- 15 State versus process
- 16 Native speaker
- 17 The data of linguistics
- Part II Notation and terminology
- 18 Notational conventions
- 19 Frequent abbreviations and initialisms
- 20 Terminology: ambiguity
- 21 Terminology: synonymy
- Part III Reading linguistics
- 22 The International Phonetic Association
- 23 Reading phonetics and phonology
- 24 Foreign expressions
- 25 Letters, accents and diacritics
- 26 Laws and principles
- 27 Statistics
- 28 Some on-line resources for linguists
- 29 Writing systems
- 30 Figures of speech
- Part IV Writing and presenting linguistics
- 31 Essay writing
- 32 Glosses
- 33 Use versus mention
- 34 Reification
- 35 Spelling
- Part V Bibliographies
- 36 Citation etiquette
- 37 Reference lists
- Part VI Language file
- Language file
- Index
