Contemporary linguistic analysis
Subtitle: an introduction
By: edited by William O'Grady and John Archibald
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Canada
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9780321714510
Subjects: Textbooks; Linguistics; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Description: O'Grady Contemporary Linguistic Analysis, 7e provides course solutions at every turn, in print and online, with enhanced content, student exercises, and instructor answer keys! Contemporary Linguistic Analysis is written and edited by leading scholars in the field. It provides an up-to-date introduction with coverage of phenomena that are of special interest and relevance to the linguistic situation in Canada. Using the generative paradigm, it offers an introduction to linguistic analysis as it is practised at this stage in the development of the discipline. This superb text gives students a solid grounding in basic linguistic concepts, but also prepares them to go on to further advanced work in the discipline. For this seventh edition there is also an expanded Study Guide covering the entire text with an answer key for students, and a Companion Website (access code required) with audio for transcription practice. William O'Grady received his Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Chicago and taught at the University of Calgary for twelve years before taking up his current position as professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Publisher's note.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Language : a preview; title: 2. Phonetics : the sounds of language; title: 3. Phonology : the function and patterning of sounds; title: 4. Morphology : the analysis of word structure; title: 5. Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure; title: 6. Semantics : the analysis of meaning; title: 7. Historical linguistics : the study of language change; title: 8. The classification of languages; title: 9. Aboriginal languages of Canada; title: 10. First language acquisition; title: 11. Second language acquisition; title: 12. Psycholinguistics : the study of language processing; title: 13. Brain and language; title: 14. Language in social contexts; title: 15. Writing and language; title: 16. Animal communication.