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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
Contents
"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
articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics, the International Phonetic Alphabet
phonemes, allophony, morphophonology
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".
Gavagai
Inclusive and exclusive "nous"
Ergative morphosyntactic alignment
phonological, morphological, morphosyntactic, syntactic
An example Old English typeface called "Blackletter".
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
Linguistic hedge effect
understanding of language
Skull of Homo neanderthalensis
Tok Pisin Wikipedia logo
Sign language hands
Computer and stack
Brain
definition of terms
IPA chart
See also