How Language Works
This book is based on "How Language Works" by Michael Gasser, who kindly released it under GFDL 1.2.
Contents edit
Introduction edit
- How Language Works/Organization and conventions in the book
- How Language Works/What we study
- How Language Works/How we study language
- How Language Works/What we don't do: prescribing and evaluating language
- How Language Works/Dialects and languages
- How Language Works/Two themes
- How Language Works/Why study language
- How Language Works/Problems
Word meanings edit
- How Language Works/Reference and proper nouns
- How Language Works/Categories and common nouns
- How Language Works/Word senses and taxonomies
- How Language Works/Metaphor and metonymy
- How Language Works/Deixis and person
- How Language Works/Lexical differences among languages
- How Language Works/Learning meaning
- How Language Works/Problems
Word forms: units edit
- How Language Works/Phonemes
- How Language Works/Iconicity
- How Language Works/Vowels
- How Language Works/English consonants
- How Language Works/Consonants in other languages
- How Language Works/Syllables
- How Language Works/Problems
Word forms: processes edit
- How Language Works/Phonetic contexts
- How Language Works/Assimilation
- How Language Works/Distribution of phones
- How Language Works/Learning phonology
- How Language Works/English accents
- How Language Works/Phonological change
- How Language Works/Phonology in the wild
- How Language Works/Problems
Composition: combining words edit
- How Language Works/Attributes and attribution
- How Language Works/Modification
- How Language Works/Compositionality and idiomaticity
- How Language Works/Problems
Sentences edit
- How Language Works/States and events
- How Language Works/Situation schemas and semantic roles
- How Language Works/Constituency and noun phrases
- How Language Works/Subjects
- How Language Works/Direct objects
- How Language Works/Adjuncts
- How Language Works/Sentence functions
- How Language Works/Problems
Grammatical categories edit
- How Language Works/Morphemes
- How Language Works/Grammatical categories and NPs
- How Language Works/Grammatical categories and verbs
- How Language Works/Morphophonology
- How Language Works/Linguistic relativity
- How Language Works/Problems
Derivation edit
- How Language Works/Derivational morphology
- How Language Works/Foregrounding and backgrounding
- How Language Works/Active and passive voice
- How Language Works/More verb derivation
- How Language Works/Problems