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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813581703321

Autore

Rhoades John

Titolo

An introduction to language description / / by John Rhoades

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6311-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; BIBLIOGRAPHY; EXERCISES FOR CHAPTERS TWO-FIVE; SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces the basic systems of language, and examines how these can be investigated and described. The systems of organizing speech sounds (phonology), meaning (lexical semantics), and grammar (morphology and syntax) are described, along with methods of figuring these out for other languages. The text will foster a deep appreciation in the reader of the fact that language is patterned and that these patterns can be discovered. To this end, problems using actual language data are pr...