Beginning Linguistics

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Cover Contents List of Illustrative Material A Note for the Teacher A Note for the Student Acknowledgements Symbols and Abbreviations The Chart of the International Phonetic Association 1 Introduction 1.1 A gentle start 1.2 What are the bits? 1.3 What is this book attempting to do? 1.4 A user's guide to the book 2 Semantics 2.1 The difficulty of meaning 2.2 Dictionaries and definitions 2.3 Representations and models 2.4 Reference 2.5 Words together 2.6 Sentence semantics (Advanced) 2.7 Summing up 3 Phonetics 3.1 Getting the phonetics right 3.2 The organs of speech 3.3 Describing consonants 3.4 Describing vowels 3.5 Secondary articulations 3.6 Suprasegmentals 3.7 Acoustics (Advanced) 3.8 The sounds of languages (Advanced) 3.9 Summing up 4 Phonology 4.1 Learners' problems and related matters 4.2 Same but different: the importance of contrast 4.3 Transcribing English 4.4 The elements of sounds 4.5 Sonority 4.6 More phonotactics 4.7 Syllabification 4.8 More or less than a syllable 4.9 Rules 4.10 Tone (Advanced) 4.11 Summing up 5 Morphology 5.1 The legal importance of analysing words 5.2 The bits of words 5.3 Two types of affix and their implications 5.4 The same but different revisited 5.5 Phonological effects in morphology 5.6 Compounds 5.7 Where do the affixes go? (Advanced) 5.8 Reduplication (Advanced) 5.9 Summing up 6 Syntax 6.1 Why we need syntax 6.2 Substitution and word-classes 6.3 Sticking words together 6.4 Rules: Observed regularity returns 6.5 Form and function: You look familiar, but what are you doing here? 6.6 Ergativity (Advanced) 6.7 The order of sentence elements (Advanced) 6.8 Summing up 7 Pragmatics 7.1 The interface with the world 7.2 Speech acts 7.3 Gricean principles 7.4 Being polite 7.5 Drawing conclusions 7.6 Texts 7.7 Doing gender (Advanced) 7.8 Summing up 8 Conclusion 8.1 A summing up and a new start 8.2 Some fundamental problems in linguistics 8.3 Some problems of doing linguistics 8.4 Some links between modules 8.5 Where to go? 8.6 Envoi Appendices A: Glossary B: Languages mentioned C: Answers to questions D: Assignments and study questions Bibliography General Index Language Index