Linguistics articles

Written by David Hornsby who is a current Linguistics lecturer and researcher at the University of Kent Linguistics A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed all in one place It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in outlining the basics in clear jargon free English and then providing added value features like summaries of key books and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam The book uses a structure that mirrors many university courses on linguistics with separate chapters focusing on linguistic thought syntax sound systems morphology semantics pragmatics language acquisition and much Linguistics A Complete Introduction Ty Complete Courses This was a highly organized informative and detailed introduction to linguistics and much of it was overwhelming to me I should have followed the author s advice in the preface and fished around for topical and translatable chapters Still I think what I gleaned from my first dive into linguistics from this edition will help carry me into my first linguistics class David Hornsby I found this author s writing to be well organized thorough and clear I m in America and the author is British so it was also interesting to read from his perspective David Hornsby 45 stars David Hornsby This is a detailed survey of the field with references for further inquiry The presentation is clear and straightforward but it is rather technical David Hornsby Overall a very good introduction to the field with language that was on the perfect edge of technical and beginner friendly I do wish it wasn t written from a purely British English perspective and no audio for examples though I suppose that s what I get for reading something that Oxford uses as summer reading material David Hornsby