Contemporary Linguistic Analysis:An Introduction 9/e

Contemporary Linguistic Analysis is written and edited by leading scholars in the field. It provides an up-to-date introduction with coverage of phenomena that are of special interest and relevance to the linguistic situation in Canada. Using the generative paradigm, it offers an introduction to linguistic analysis as it is practised at this stage in the development of the discipline.

This superb text gives students a solid grounding in basic linguistic concepts, but also prepares them to go on to further advanced work in the discipline.

1 Language: a preview
2 Phonetics: the sounds of language
3 Phonology: contrasts and patterns
4 Morphology: the analysis of word structure
5 Syntax: the analysis of sentence structure
6 Semantics: the study of meaning
7 The classification of languages
8 Historical linguistics: the study of language change
9 Indigenous languages in Canada
10 First language acquisition
11 Second language acquisition
12 Bilingualism and bilingual acquisition
13 Psycholinguistics: the study of language processing
14 Brain and language
15 Language in social contexts
16 Writing and language