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English linguistics : a coursebook for students of English /

The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of grammar - meaning - utterances - variation. Notably, the book is written from a foreign student's pers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herbst, Thomas, 1953-
Autor Corporativo: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010.
Colección:De Gruyter textbook.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; Preface; 1. Facts about English; 2. Principles of modern linguistics; 3. Language, intuition and corpora; 4. The sounds of English: phonetics; 5. Phonology; 6. Phonetic "reality"; 7. Contrastive aspects of phonetics and phonology; 8. Morphology; 9. Word formation; 10. Phraseology; 11. Syntax: traditional grammar; 12. Valency theory and case grammar; 13. Theories of grammar and language acquisition; 14. Semantics: meaning, reference and denotation; 15. Meaning relations; 16. Ways of describing meaning; 17. Pragmatics; 18. Texts; 19. Variation in language.