Hudson, Grover. creator text bibliography mau Malden, Mass Blackwell Publishers 2000 monographic eng

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xv, 533 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. "This is a new kind of textbook for courses in introductory linguistics. It makes clear what is important or essential, and omits what is not. It is strictly selective, highly structured, focused, to-the-point, and informative. It presents material in a way that mirrors the structure of a typical semester of teaching and will meet both the needs of the busy student who wants to get straight to the point and the instructor looking for a textbook which both identifies key material and integrates it with numerous exercises to engage the student in active learning."--BOOK JACKET. 1. Signs and Sign Systems -- 2. Phonetics -- 3. Phones and Phonemes -- 4. Morphemes -- 5. The Lexicon and Morphological Rules -- 6. Sentences and Syntax -- 7. Phrase Structure Rules -- 8. Child Language Learning -- 9. Explanations of Child Language Learning -- 10. Language and the Brain -- 11. Adult Language Learning -- 12. Animal Languages? -- 13. Phonological Rules -- 14. Phonological Features -- 15. Six Ways to Get New Words -- 16. Seven More Ways to Get New Words -- 17. Sentence Meaning -- 18. Sentence Form -- 19. Pragmatics: Inferring Meaning in Context -- 20. The Unity of Languages -- 21. The Basic History of Writing -- 22. The Ecology of Writing -- 23. Three Characteristics of Language Change -- 24. Eight Causes of Language Change -- 25. Language Families -- 26. Dialects and Other Sociolects -- 27. Register -- 28. The History of Linguistics. Grover Hudson. Includes bibliographical references and index. Linguistics P121 .H746 1999 410 HUE 0631203044 (pbk. : alk. paper) 98051949 DLC 981113 20161205085918.0 2320716