Linguistics

This online textbook serves to provide an introduction to the science of linguistics, its major subfields, and its theoretical consequences.

Part of the Linguistics Collection

Contents

"Freedom" (amagi), or "liberty", taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.		00.Introduction- How does language work? linguistics, descriptivism, hidden knowledge, deep structure, experimental data
"IPA" in IPA		01.Phonetics- The sounds of speech articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics, the International Phonetic Alphabet
		02.Phonology- Internal Representations and Rules of Sounds phonemes, allophony, morphophonology
Word structure tree of Dutch compounds		03.Morphology- How we make words morphemes, affixes, other morphemes, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, morphosyntax, non-morphemic theories
Parse of the sentence "John hit the ball".		04.Syntax- How words fit together
Gavagai		05.Semantics- Determining meaning
Inclusive and exclusive "nous"		06.Pragmatics- The role of context
Ergative morphosyntactic alignment		07.Typology- The unity and diversity of language phonological, morphological, morphosyntactic, syntactic
An example Old English typeface called "Blackletter".		08.Historical Linguistics- How languages got the way they are
An icon showing glyphs from different alphabets		09.Orthography- The use of written language directionality, spelling systems, alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, logographies, mixed scripts, unwritten language and new orthographies
Multilingual sign in Nador, Morocco		10.Sociolinguistics- Language in society
Linguistic hedge effect		11.Psycholinguistics- Language in the mind understanding of language
Skull of Homo neanderthalensis		12.Evolutionary Linguistics- The mystery of glottogeny
		13.Language Acquisition- How Children Acquire
Tok Pisin Wikipedia logo		14.Creoles- Invented Grammars
Sign language hands		15.Sign Language- Language without Sound
Computer and stack		16.Computational Linguistics- Computational Investigations of Human Language
Brain		17.Neurolinguistics- Language and the Human Brain
		Glossary definition of terms
		IPA Chart IPA chart
		Further reading
		Bibliography

See also

• Category:Subject:Languages