Linguistics Student's Handbook

Front Cover
Edinburgh University Press, 2007 - 400 pages
The book that tells you all the things you felt you were expected to know about linguistics, but were afraid to ask about.*What do you know about Burushaski and Miwok?*What's the difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic?*What is E-language?*What is a language?*Do parenthetical and non-restrictive mean the same thing?*How do you write a bibiliographic entry for a work you have not seen?Every student who has asked these questions needs this book. A compendium of useful 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 280 languages, the book provides a new learning tool as a supplement to the usual textbooks and glossaries.
 

Contents

1 Language
3
2 Accent dialect variety
7
3 Linguistics
11
4 Grammar
19
5 Parts of speech
25
6 Rules
33
7 The Saussurean dichotomies
41
8 Chomskys influence
47
21 Reading phonetics and phonology
131
22 Foreign expressions
137
23 Letters accents and diacritics
139
24 Journals
142
25 Linguists names
147
26 Laws and principles
150
27 Statistics
162
28 Some online resources for linguists
171

9 Form and function
57
10 Contrast and substitution
61
11 Binarity
64
12 Trees
68
13 State versus process
73
14 Native speaker
76
15 The data of linguistics
81
Notation and terminology
93
16 Notational conventions
95
17 Frequent abbreviations and initialisms
104
ambiguity
107
synonymy
116
Reading linguistics
125
20 The International Phonetic Association
127
Writing and presenting linguistics
175
29 Essay writing
177
30 Glosses
185
31 Use versus mention
190
32 Reification
192
33 Spelling
195
Bibliographies
197
34 Citation etiquette
199
35 Reference lists
208
Language file
219
Language file
221
Index
382
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2007)

Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics at the Victoria University of Wellington. He is an Editor of the journal

Bibliographic information