English Linguistics: An Introduction
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 233
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English Linguistics: An Introduction is an e-book offering an advanced introduction for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses. At just over 200 pages, it is meant to be completed in one-semester courses which present the core areas of the discipline: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It includes two prefatory chapters which answer the questions “What is language?” and “What is linguistics?”
In introducing the core areas of linguistics, the book presents levels of linguistic structure in a tightly coherent way. In Chapter 1, the study of linguistic form and linguistic meaning are integrated via duality of patterning: linguistic forms are organized in an ascending hierarchy of those that don’t have meaning to those that do. Linguistic levels (phonology, morphology, syntax) are consistently defined as systems consisting of units and rules for combining and modifying them. For each level, step-by-step procedures for analysis are laid out; procedures for analyzing linguistic meaning and use are also provided in the chapters on semantics and pragmatics.
The exposition in each chapter is supported by several pedagogical aids: conceptual and procedural learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter; brief questions and activities in the body; and a summary, list of key terms (each defined in the glossary), and exercises at the end.
This includes access to KHQ, a quizzing application that can be accessed on Apple iTunes & Google Play. It provides reader with customized study sections, flash cards, quizzes, explanations of incorrect answers, categories for struggling terms and questions, as well as an overview of personal performance.
Chapter 1: What Is (a) Language?
1.0 Learning Outcomes
1.1 Languages and Communication Systems
1.2 Properties of Human Language(s)
1.2.1 Property 1: Arbitrariness
1.2.2 Property 2: Creativity
1.2.3 Property 3: Duality of Patterning
1.2.4 Property 4: Systematicity
1.3 Levels of Language
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Chapter 2: What Is Linguistics?
2.0 Learning Outcomes
2.1 “The Scientific Study of Language”
2.1.1 Description and Prescription
2.1.2 Grammaticality and Acceptability
2.1.3 Verification, Corroboration, and Falsification
2.2 Introspection in the Study of Language
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Chapter 3: The Phonetics of American English
3.0 Learning Outcomes
3.1 The Linguistic Level of Phonetics
3.2 Phonetic Preliminaries
3.2.1 The Organs of Speech
3.2.2 Consonants and Vowels
3.3 The Articulation of English Consonants
3.3.1 Places of Articulation
3.3.2 Manners of Articulation
3.3.3 Describing English Consonants
3.4 The Articulation of English Vowels
3.5 Phonetic Transcription
3.6 Natural Classes of Phones
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Chapter 4: The Phonology of American English
4.0 Learning Outcomes
4.1 The Level of Phonology in Relation to Phonetics
4.2 Some Phonological Rules of English
4.2.1. Assimilatory Phonological Rules
4.2.2 Nonassimilatory Phonological Rules
4.3 The Status of Phones
4.4 Phonological Analysis: A Decision Procedure
4.5 Phonological Derivations
4.6 Rule Formalisms*
4.7 Suprasegmental Phonology: The Structure of Syllables
4.7.1 Elements of Syllable Structure
4.7.2 English Phonotactics
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Chapter 5: The Morphology of English
5.0 Learning Outcomes
5.1 Morphological Units
5.2 Combinatorial Rules for Morphology 1: Derivation
5.3 Combinatorial Rules for Morphology 2: Inflection
5.4 Morphological Analysis
5.4.1 The Basic Procedure
5.4.2 Justifying Order of Affixation*
5.5 Modificational Rules: Morphophonology
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Chapter 6: The Syntax of English
6.0 Learning Outcomes
6.1 Syntactic Categories
6.2 Syntactic Constituency
6.3. Merge and the Structure of Phrases
6.3.1 The Phrase-Structure Schema
6.3.2 Diagramming with the Phrase-Structure Schema
6.4 Merge and the Structure of Clauses
6.5 Move as a Modificational Rule
6.5.1 Move in Yes-No Questions 1: T-C Movement
6.5.2 Move in Yes-No Questions 2: Do Insertion
6.5.3 Move in Information Questions: Wh- Movement
6.6 Merge and Multiclausal Sentences
6.7 Steps in Syntactic Analysis
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Chapter 7: The Semantics of English
7.0 Learning Outcomes
7.1 Lexical Relations
7.2 Lexical Semantic Features
7.3 Intension and Extension
7.4. Truth and Falsity of Sentences
7.5 Semantic Relations between Sentences
7.6 Truth Conditions*
7.7 Thematic Roles
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Chapter 8: The Pragmatics of English
8.0 Learning Outcomes
8.1 Speech Acts
8.2 Implicatures
8.3 Presupposition
Chapter Summary
Key Terms
Exercises
Glossary
References
*intermediate or advanced topic