TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rhoades,John
TI  - An Introduction to Language Description
SN  - 9781443863117
AV  - P107 
U1  - 400 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - languages (study discipline)
KW  - aat
KW  - language (general communication)
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Language
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - Miscellaneous
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of contents; figures; tables; preface; chapter one; chapter two; chapter four; chapter five; appendix a; appendix b; appendix c; appendix d; bibliography; exercises for chapters two-five; suggested solutions to exercises; index
N2  - This book introduces the basic systems of language, and examines how these can be investigated and described. The systems of organizing speech sounds (phonology), meaning (lexical semantics), and grammar (morphology and syntax) are described, along with methods of figuring these out for other languages. The text will foster a deep appreciation in the reader of the fact that language is patterned and that these patterns can be discovered. To this end, problems using actual language data are pr
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