Laurie Bauer

The Linguistics Student's Handbook

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Praise for the previous edition "I am sorry it did not exist when I was a student... and I expect it to be a useful addition to every linguistics student's bookshelf." Nordic Journal of Linguistics The go-to- companion for anyone studying linguistics Laurie Bauer has expertly crafted a compendium of essential things for linguistics students to know -- from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics. Part reference work, part revision guide, and with tables providing summary information on some 300 languages, the book provides a new learning tool as a supplement to your usual textbooks. The new edition features: . New chapters on the Neogrammarians, figures of speech and writing systems . New coverage on punctuation, spelling and academic writing . 15 new languages added to the Language File section including Bororo, Kuuk Thaayorre, Mapuche, Seediq, Tamashek, Ute . New data and examples to reflect new research . Guidance on how to use the Language File for assignments Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9781474474085
• ISBN-10: 147447408X
• Artikelnr.: 59920282

Autorenporträt

Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics at the Victoria University of Wellington. He is an Editor of the journal Word Structure.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Abbreviations
and conventions used in the text
Part I: Some fundamentals of linguistics
1: Language
2: Accent, dialect, variety
3: Linguistics
4: Grammar
5: Parts of speech
6: Rules
7: The Neogrammarians
8: The Saussurean dichotomies
9: Chomsky's influence
10: Some recurrent themes
11: Form and function
12: Contrast and substitution
13: Binarity
14: Trees
15: State versus process
16: Native speaker
17: The data of linguistics
Part II: Notation and terminology
18: Notational conventions
19: Frequent abbreviations and initialisms
20: Terminology: ambiguity
21: Terminology: synonymy
Part III: Reading linguistics
22: The International Phonetic Association
23: Reading phonetics and phonology
24: Foreign expressions
25: Letters, accents and diacritics
26: Laws and principles
27: Statistics
28: Some on-line resources for linguists
29: Writing systems
30: Figures of speech
Part IV: Writing and presenting linguistics
31: Essay writing
32: Glosses
33: Use versus mention
34: Reification
35: Spelling
Part V: Bibliographies
36: Citation etiquette
37: Reference lists
Part VI: Language file
Language file
Index