How English works: a linguistic introduction

✍ Scribed by Curzan, Anne;Adams, Michael

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 566
• Series: Pearson custom library
• Edition: 3rd ed., Pearson new international ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This accessible introduction to the structure of English, general theories in linguistics, and important issues in sociolinguistics, is the first text written specifically for English and Education majors. This engaging introductory language/linguistics textbook provides more extensive coverage of issues of particular interest to English majors and future English instructors. It invites all students to connect academic linguistics to the everyday use of the English language around them. The book's approach taps students' natural curiosity about the English language. Through exercises and discussion questions about ongoing changes in English, How English Works asks students to become active participants in the construction of linguistic knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
Glossary......Page 6
1. A Language Like English......Page 30
2. Language and Authority......Page 62
3. English Phonology......Page 95
4. English Morphology......Page 133
5. English Syntax: The Grammar of Words......Page 165
6. English Syntax: Phrases: Clauses, and Sentences......Page 200
7. Semantics......Page 241
8. Spoken Discourse......Page 277
9. Stylistics......Page 317
10. Language Acquisition......Page 354
11. Language Variation......Page 393
12. American Dialects......Page 426
13. History of English: Old to Early Modern English......Page 468
14. History of English: Modern and Future English......Page 509
Bibliography......Page 542
Brief Timeline of the History of the English Language......Page 558
List of Symbols, Linguistic Conventions, and Common Abbreviations......Page 560
D......Page 562
L......Page 563
Q......Page 564
T......Page 565
W......Page 566

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