Patterns of language : structure, variation, change
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Patterns of language : structure, variation, change
Academic Press, c1992
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Includes bibliography (p. 425-433) and index
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Description
This book is a comprehensive advanced introduction to linguistics, unique in its integration of variation and change with the more structural or synchronic topics. It includes chapters on variation and change in lexicon, phonology, and syntax. It also covers the topics of pidgins and creoles, on first and second language acquisition, on the development of language in the human species, and on the growth of writing, printing in information technology and how these have affected, and continue to affect, language. Key features include: integration of variation and change; new treatment of functional and typological approaches to syntax; emphasis on the widest possible diversity of languages. It offers alternative ways of looking at language.
Table of Contents
The Uses of Language
Words: Meaning and the Lexicon
Morphology
Lexical Variation and Change
Appendix: Language Families of the World
Sounds: Phonetic Phonology
Phonological Variation
Variation Through Time: Phonological Change
Sentences: Generative Grammer
The Functions of Syntax. Syntactic Typology
Syntactic Variation
Syntactic Change
Growth
Pidgin and Creole Languages
First and Second Language Learning
Language and the Human Species
Language and Civilization
Bibliographic Notes
Bibliography
Index
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