Linguistics: An Introduction Answer Key

by McGregor, William B.

• ISBN13: 9781472577665
• ISBN10: 1472577663
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-04-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This is the print edition of the Answer Key for Linguistics: An Introduction by William B. McGregor. It features a full set of answers to the questions in the main textbook and supports lecturers in their teaching from the book. It is fully illustrated and features two appendices covering tasks that students can take on as independent projects.

Author Biography

Professor William B. McGregor is at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published over a dozen books, including Semiotic Grammar (1997), The Languages of the Kimberly, Western Australia (2004), and The Nyulnyul language of Dampier Land, Western Australia (2012). He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Sounds of Language: Phonetics and Phonology
Chapter 3 Structure of Words: Morphology
Chapter 4 Lexicon
Chapter 5 Structure of Sentences: Syntax
Chapter 6 Meaning
Chapter 7 Sociolinguistics: Language in Its Social Context
Chapter 8 Text and Discourse
Chapter 9 Psycholinguistics: Language, the Mind and the Brain
Chapter 10 Language Acquisition
Chapter 11 Language in Its Biological Context
Chapter 12 Gesture and sign languages
Chapter 13 Writing
Chapter 14 Unity and Diversity in Language Structure
Chapter 15 Language Change
Chapter 16 Languages of the World
Appendix 1 Sample biography of a linguist
Appendix 2 Brief description of a language