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

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"Freedom" (amagi), or "liberty", taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

linguistics, descriptivism, hidden knowledge, deep structure, experimental data



 
"IPA" in IPA

articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics, the International Phonetic Alphabet



 

phonemes, allophony, morphophonology



 
Word structure tree of Dutch compounds

morphemes, affixes, other morphemes, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, morphosyntax, non-morphemic theories



 
Parse of the sentence "John hit the ball".




 
Gavagai




 
Inclusive and exclusive "nous"




 
Ergative morphosyntactic alignment

phonological, morphological, morphosyntactic, syntactic



 
An example Old English typeface called "Blackletter".




 
An icon showing glyphs from different alphabets

directionality, spelling systems, alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, logographies, mixed scripts, unwritten language and new orthographies



 
Multilingual sign in Nador, Morocco




 
Linguistic hedge effect

understanding of language



 
Skull of Homo neanderthalensis







 
Tok Pisin Wikipedia logo




 
Sign language hands




 
Computer and stack




 
Brain




definition of terms



IPA chart










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