For the Love of Language : An Introduction to Linguistics (Paperback)

Part I. 'Using Language to Expose Language' ? Setting the Scene: 1. What is language?; 2. What linguists do; 3. Ways to study language; Part II. 'In the Beginning was the Word' ? Words, their Structure and Meaning: 4. What's in a word?; 5. Morphology ? the structure of words; 6. Semantics ? the meaning of words; Part III. 'The Deep Grooves of Language' ? Sounds and Grammar; 7. Phonetics; 8. Phonology ? the sound system; 9. Syntax ? the structure of sentences; Part IV. 'Language Is a Social Fact' ? Variation and Change: 10. Variation and identity; 11. Structure across time; 12. Languages and cultures in contact; Part V. 'Language that Rolls up its Sleeves' ? Language at Work: 13. Language and text; 14. Language and interaction; 15. Language and social values; Part VI. 'Language is the Dress of Thought' ? Language, Mind and World: 16. Language, mind and the brain; 17. Language acquisition; 18. Computational linguistics.