本书是美国亚利桑那大学语言学教授阿克马吉安及其同事撰写的经典语言学著作，自1979年首次出版以来，畅销不衰。本版本是经过全新修订的第5版。作为一本入门教程，《语言学》对语言学研究的基本概念、主要理论和前沿课题、最新方法作了系统、简明、精确的阐释和介绍，内容涵盖形态学、音系学、语音学、语义学等传统领域以及语用学、语言心理学等涉及交际与认知科学的新兴分支。全书语言简洁易懂，例证、插图丰富多样，是广大语言学初学者的理想读本。

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目录 ：

Acknowledgments

Note to the Teacher

PART Ⅰ THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LANGUAGE

INTRODUCTlON

Chapter 1 What Is Linguistics?

Chapter 2 Morphology：The Study of the Structure of Words

2.1 Words：Some Background Concepts

2.2 Complex Words and Morphemes

2.3 Neologisms：How Are New Words Created?

2.4 Inflectional versus Derivational Morphology

2.5 Problematic Aspects of Morphological Analysis

2.6 Special Topics

The Meaning of Complex Words

More on Compounds

Morphological Anaphora

Classes of Derivational Affixes

Chapter 3 Phonetics and Phonemic Transcription

3.1 Some Background Concepts 65

3.2 The Representation of Speech Sounds

3.3 Special Topics

Vowels before /a/

Contractions in Casual Spoken English

Consonant Clusters

Chapter 4 Phonology：The Study of Sound Structure

4.1 What Is Phonology?

4.2 The Internal Structure of Speech Sounds：Distinctive Feature Theory

4.3 The External Organization of Speech Sounds

4.4 Special Topic

The Word•Level Tone Contour of English

Chapter 5 Syntax：The Study of Sentence Structure

5.1 Some Background Concepts

5.2 An Informal Theory of Syntax

5.3 A More Formal Account of Syntactic Theory

5.4 Special Topics

Wh-Questions

Sentence Structure and Anaphora

X-Bar Theory

Chapter 6 Semantics：The Study of Linguistic Meaning

6.1 Semantics as Part of a Grammar

6.2 Theories of Meaning

6.3 The Scope of a Semantic Theory

6.4 Special Topics

Mood and Meaning

Singular and General

Deictics and Proper Names

Definite Descriptions：Referential and Attributive

Natural Kind Terms，Concepts，and the Division of Linguistic Labor

Anaphora and Coreference

Chapter 7 Language Variation

Chapter 8 Language Change

PARTⅡ COMMUNICATION AND COGNTIVE SClieNCE

INTRODUCrION

Chapter 9 Pragmatics：The Study of Language Use and Communication

Chapter 10 Psychology of Language：Speech Production and Comprehension

Chapter 11 Language Acquisition in Children

Chapter 12 Language and the Brain

Appendix The Written Representation of Language

Glossary

Index