The Handbook of Linguistics

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Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller
John Wiley & Sons, Feb 24, 2003 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 840 pages
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Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics,The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject and its subdisciplines.
 

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A good introduction to the subject

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Being a budding linguist myself when I bought it, I found the information contained within useful, and even now that I've had some courses in the discipline I still get a lot of useful information from it. Read full review

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Contents

Origins of Language
1
Languages of the World
19
Writing Systems
43
The History of Linguistics
81
Contents
84
Historical Linguistics
105
Field Linguistics
130
Linguistic Phonetics
150
Language and Communication
394
Discourse Analysis
428
Linguistics and Literature
446
First Language Acquisition
466
Multilingualism
512
Natural Sign Languages
533
Sociolinguistics
563
Neurolinguistics
582

Phonology
180
Morphology
213
The Lexicon
238
Syntax
265
Generative Grammar
295
Functional Linguistics
319
Typology
337
An Introduction to Formal Semantics
369
Computational Linguistics
608
Applied Linguistics
637
Linguistics and Reading
664
Clinical Linguistics
673
Translation
692
Bibliography
714
Index
774
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The Handbook of Linguistics
Mark Aronoff,Janie Rees-Miller
Limited preview - 2008
The Handbook of Linguistics
Mark Aronoff,Janie Rees-Miller
Limited preview - 2003

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About the author (2003)

Mark Aronoff is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Provost at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of several books and numerous technical articles on linguistic morphology. Since 1995, he has served as Editor of Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America.

Janie Rees-Miller is Chair of the Modern Languages Department and Director of the English as a Second Language Program at Marietta College, Ohio. She has taught English as a second or foreign language for twenty years in the Middle East, England, and the United States. Her research interests include applied linguistics, second language acquisition and pedagogy, and language contact between Native American languages and English.

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TitleThe Handbook of Linguistics
Volume 43 of Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
EditorsMark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2003
ISBN1405102527, 9781405102520
Length840 pages
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