语言导论

《语言导论》1974年初版之后，通过不断地修订把语言学领域的最新思想和方法传递给一批又一批的语言学者，其声誉在西方语言学界长盛不衰，至今已经是第七版了。只要打开这本书，马上就可以发现她非同寻常的幽默和生动；只要稍稍浏览一下，就能够领略她简明的语言中蕴涵的对深放工准确的追求；尤其难能可贵的是，作者在语言学的论述中倾入的一腔热情，使得本书的叙述有一种特殊的攫获人心的力量。所有这一切，使得这部天才的著作成为一部难以替代的经典。 书末所附的语言学基本概念小词典，是入门的极有价值的参考资料；不仅有助于准确地理解本书的内容，也是进一步阅读其他英文著作的基础。

part 1 chapter1 what is language? linguistic knowledge linguistic knowledge and performance language grammar? language universals animal“languages” what we know about language summary references for further reading exerciese chapter 2 brain and language the human braing the autonomy of language language and brain development the evolution of language summary references for further reading exerciese part 2 grammatical aspects of language chapter 3 morphologg:the word of language dictionarise content words and functionwords morphemes:the minimal units of meanign rules of word formation sign language morphology word coinage grammatical morphemes …… part 3 the psgchologg of language part 4 language and society GLOSSARY INDEX