Introducing Linguistics: a Graphic Guide
by Trask, R. L.
Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, this title reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.
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- Full title :Introducing Linguistics : a Graphic Guide.
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Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, this title reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Icon Books
- Place of Publication:Duxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
Notes
Another Cognitive Example.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (357 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781848317710, 1848317719
- oclc:on1027492925
Table of Contents
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Brief History of Linguistics -- An Indian Linguist -- The Greek Origins of Linguistics -- Grammar or Parts of Speech -- Latin Grammar -- Traditional Grammar -- The Port-Royal Grammar -- Historical Linguistics -- Ferdinand de Saussure -- Saussure's Lectures on General Linguistics -- Saussure's Structuralism -- An Example from English -- An Example from Spanish -- Synchronic and Diachronic Structures -- Trubetzkoy's Phonology -- Jakobson's Work on Linguistics -- Jakobson and Semiotics -- The Origins of American Linguistics.
Natural Language -- Our Language Faculty -- What's Special About Human Languages? -- What do all Languages Have in Common? -- Linguistic Abilities -- Language Media -- Units of Writing -- Duality of Patterning -- Sign Languages -- Nicaraguan Sign Language -- Grammar and Word Order -- Different Examples of Word Order and Location -- Tense and Time -- Grammatical Differences -- Sign Language Grammar -- The Written Record of Language -- And Further Back ... -- ... to Old English -- The Never-ending Story -- Conservative Prescriptivism -- Historical Perspectives -- Explaining Systemic Correspondence.
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