Introduction to Linguistics
by Edward Stabler
Publisher: UCLA 2014
Number of pages: 162
Description:
What are human languages, such that they can be acquired and used as they are? This text surveys some of the most important and recent approaches to this question, breaking the problem up along traditional lines. The emphasis is on methods.
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