Linguistics: An Introduction

By William B. McGregor

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  • 1 — Introduction
    • 1.1 — Videos og American Sign Language
    • 1.2 — Language purity and prescriptivism
    • 1.3 — Links
    • Test 1
  • 2 — Sounds of Language: Phonetics and Phonology
    • 2.1 — IPA charts and fonts
    • 2.2 — The farmer kills the duckling
    • 2.3 — Sample layout of a phonology problem
    • 2.4 — Basic procedure for determining allophony
    • 2.5 — Links
    • Test 2
  • 3 — Structure of Words: Morphology
    • 3.1 — Some difficulties with the notion of the morpheme
    • 3.2 — Two other types of affix
    • Test 3
  • 4 — Lexicon
    • 4.1 — Terms for policeman in Australian languages
    • Test 4
  • 5 — Structure of Sentences: Syntax
    • 5.1 — Category and function/role
    • Test 5
  • 6 — Meaning
    • Test 6
  • 7 — Sociolinguistics: Language in Social Context
    • Test 7
  • 8 — Psycholinguistics: Language, the Mind and the Brain
    • 8.1 — Subtraction paradigm in brain imaging
    • 8.2 — Links
    • Test 8
  • 9 — Language Acquisition
    • 9.1 — Links
    • Test 9
  • 10 — Language in its Biological Context
    • 10.1 — Links
    • Test 10
  • 11 — Unity and Diversity in Language Structure
    • 11.1 — Swadesh Basic Word List
    • 11.2 — Links
    • Test 11
  • 12 — Language Change
    • 12.1 — Grassmann’s Law
    • 12.2 — Links
    • Test 12
  • 13 — Languages of the World
    • 13.1 — Survey of the world’s languages
    • 13.2 — Links
    • Test 13
• Errata
• Extras / PDFs
  • Prelims (PDF, 130 KiB)
  • Chapter 7A (Prelims)
  • Chapter 7A (PDF, 240 KiB)
  • Glossary (A–C) (PDF, 152 KiB)
  • Language Index (PDF, 61 KiB)
  • Name Index (PDF, 67 KiB)
  • Subject Index (PDF, 78 KiB)
  • A brief outline of the history of linguistics (PDF, 231 KiB)
  • Issues for further thought and exercises (Chapter 2) (PDF, 64 KiB)
  • Issues for further thought and exercises (Chapter 4) (PDF, 32 KiB)
  • Syntactic theories (PDF, 62 KiB)
  • Overview of modern theories of language evolution (PDF, 54 KiB)
  • Survey of the world’s languages (PDF, 592 KiB)