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Product Description: This book is a self-contained introduction to language and linguistics, suitable for use as a textbook and for self-study. Written by a team of distinguished linguists, it offers a unified approach to language from several perspectives...read more

This textbook is a self-contained introduction to linguistics for beginning students. It offers a unified approach to language from several perspectives. A language is a complex structure represented in the minds of its speakers, and this book introduces the tools necessary for understanding this structure. In addition, it focuses on how small children acquire their native language; the psychological processes which are involved in mature speakers producing and understanding language; linguistic difficulties that arise as a consequence of brain damage or genetic disorders; and additional issues that arise when we consider individual speakers as part of a social community.

This is an introduction to the rapidly developing field of morphology in generative grammar. Presupposing very little prior knowledge of linguistics, the book guides the reader from absolute basics to the most recent theoretical developments. This textbook includes a wealth of exercises, and is designed to be used either on courses explicitly focused on morphology or as an adjunct to other courses, particularly in generative syntax and phonology. The book opens with an account of the phenomena studied by morphologists, of classical problems and of the earliest models of morphology proposed within the generative paradigm. Its second part deals with the interface between morphology and phonology. Part 3 begins with a comprehensive introduction to more recent theories of word structure, including inflectional morphology. Subsequent chapters examine the interface between morphology and syntax, exploring the processes which affect grammatical relations, such as passives and causatives. Further chapters examine compounding processes and the morphology, phonology and syntax of clitic systems. The final part of the book includes a full discussion of "bracketing paradoxes" and closes with a survey of models of morphology and competing views of the place of morphology in linguistic theory.

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Product Description: Aimed principally at the undergraduate student, this book provides a presentation of the fundamental concepts of phonological analysis, and at the same time shows how the phonological system of English can be illuminated by such concepts...read more