Linguistics

This online textbook serves to provide an introduction to the science of linguistics, its major subfields, and its theoretical consequences.

Part of the Linguistics Collection

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"Freedom" (amagi), or "liberty", taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
"Freedom" (amagi), or "liberty", taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

linguistics, descriptivism, hidden knowledge, deep structure, experimental data



"IPA" in IPA
"IPA" in IPA

articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics, the International Phonetic Alphabet



phonemes, allophony, morphophonology



Word structure tree of Dutch compounds
Word structure tree of Dutch compounds

morphemes, affixes, other morphemes, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, morphosyntax, non-morphemic theories



Parse of the sentence "John hit the ball".
Parse of the sentence "John hit the ball".




Gavagai
Gavagai




Inclusive and exclusive "nous"
Inclusive and exclusive "nous"




Ergative morphosyntactic alignment
Ergative morphosyntactic alignment

phonological, morphological, morphosyntactic, syntactic



An example Old English typeface called "Blackletter".
An example Old English typeface called "Blackletter".




An icon showing glyphs from different alphabets
An icon showing glyphs from different alphabets

directionality, spelling systems, alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, logographies, mixed scripts, unwritten language and new orthographies



Multilingual sign in Nador, Morocco
Multilingual sign in Nador, Morocco




Linguistic hedge effect
Linguistic hedge effect

understanding of language



Skull of Homo neanderthalensis
Skull of Homo neanderthalensis







Tok Pisin Wikipedia logo
Tok Pisin Wikipedia logo




Sign language hands
Sign language hands




Computer and stack
Computer and stack




Brain
Brain




definition of terms



IPA chart








Bibliography



See also

  • Category:Subject:Languages
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