This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes.Rather than treat morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics as completely separatefields, the book shows how they interact. It provides a sound introduction to linguistic methodologywhile encouraging students to consider why people are intrinsically interested in language--theultimate puzzle of the human mind. The text first treats such structural and interpretive parts oflanguage as morphology, phonology, syntax, and semantics, then takes a cognitive perspective andcovers such topics as pragmatics, psychology of language, language acquisition, and language and thebrain. For this sixth edition, all chapters have been revised. New material includes updatedexamples, new special topics sections, and new discussions of the minimalist program, semanticminimalism, human genetic relationships and historical relationships among languages, Griceantheories, experimental pragmatics, and language acquisition. The organization of the book givesinstructors flexibility in designing their courses. Chapters have numerous subsections with corematerial presented first and additional material following as special topics. The accompanyingworkbook supplements the text with exercises drawn from a variety of languages. The goal is to teachbasic conceptual foundations of linguistics and the methods of argumentation, justification, andhypothesis testing within the field. By presenting the most fundamental linguistics concepts indetail, the text allows students to get a feeling for how real work in different areas oflinguistics is done.

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The late Adrian Akmajian was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Richard A. Demers is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Ann K. Farmer is an Information Engineer at Google. The late Robert M. Harnish was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Arizona.

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