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Loading... Language and Its Structure: Some Fundamental Linguistic Concepts (edition 1973)by Ronald W. Langacker
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An okay intro, but there are better. Okay if you can pick it up cheap and know so little about the field that it at least shows you how a linguist thinks aboutlanguage as opposed to a layperson ( ) Includes Introduction on why language is importance, with a short "history" of its study. Part Two examines the structures--grammar, syntax, phonological systems. Part Three is titled "Linguistic Relationships" showing language change (stages) and interconnectedness-- in their "surprisingly extensive structural similarities" [vi]. no reviews | add a review
A concise introduction to the field of linguistics, the elements of grammar, syntax, and phonology, and the historical and structural relationships between language systems. No library descriptions found. |
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