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• Title:How languages work : an introduction to language and linguistics / editor Carol Genetti, University of California, Santa Barbara ; assistant editor Allison Adelman, University of California, Santa Barbara ; contributors Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, James Cook University ; Ayla Applebaum, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University ; Claire Bowern, Yale University ; Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Dorothy Chun, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Patricia M. Clancy, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Guy Deutscher, University of Manchester ; Robert Englebretson, Rice University ; Jan Frodesen, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Matthew Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Birgit Hellwig, La Trobe University ; Kristine Hildebrandt, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville ; Daniel J. Hintz, SIL International ; Michael Israel, University of Maryland, College Park ; Ritva Laury, University of Helsinki ; Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Toshihide Nakayama, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies ; Loretta O'Connor, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Genetti, Carol, 1961- editor.
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• Published/Created:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: X G46 H69 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Nuu-chah-nulth--Study and teaching.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Language and languages--Study and teaching.
  Linguistics--Study and teaching.
  
• Description:xxvii, 647 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-637) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780521767446 (hardback)
  052176744X (hardback)
  9780521174688 (paberback)
  0521174686 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Part I: primary chapters
  1. Introduction: language, languages, and linguistics / Carol Genetti
  2. Phonetics: physical dimensions of speech sounds / Matthew Gordon
  3. Phonology: organization of speech sounds / Matthew Gordon
  4. Morphology: what's in a word? / Marianne Mithun
  5. Word classes: evidence from grammatical behavior / Carol Genetti
  6. Syntax: words in combination / Carol Genetti
  7. Semantics: how language makes sense / Michael Israel
  8. Pragmatics: inference for language / Mira Ariel
  9. Discourse: language beyond the sentence / Wallace Chafe
  10. Prosody: the music of language / Wallace Chafe
  11. Language and the social world / Mary Bucholtz
  12. Language change: the dynamicity of linguistic systems / Marianne Mithun
  13. Language contact and areal linguistics / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  14. First language acquisition / Patricia Clancy
  15. Second language acquisition / Dorothy Chun and Jan Frodesen
  Part II: language profiles
  1. Kabardian / Matthew Gordon and Ayla Applebaum
  2. Goemai / Birgit Hellwig
  3. Manange / Kristine Hildebrandt
  4. Finnish / Ritva Laury
  5. Nuuchahnulth (Nootka) / Toshihide Nakayama
  6. South Conchucos Quechua / Daniel Hintz
  7. Tsez / Bernard Comrie
  8. Bardi / Claire Bowern
  9. Lowland Chontal / Loretta O'Connor
  10. Manambu / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Carol Genetti
  11. Indonesian / Robert Englebretson
  12. Seneca / Wallace Chafe
  13. Akkadian / Guy Deutscher.