本書是美國亞利桑那大學語言學教授阿剋馬吉安及其同事撰寫的經典語言學著作，自1979年首次齣版以來，暢銷不衰。本版本是經過全新修訂的第5版。作為一本入門教程，《語言學》對語言學研究的基本概念、主要理論和前沿課題、最新方法作瞭係統、簡明、精確的闡釋和介紹，內容涵蓋形態學、音係學、語音學、語義學等傳統領域以及語用學、語言心理學等涉及交際與認知科學的新興分支。全書語言簡潔易懂，例證、插圖豐富多樣，是廣大語言學初學者的理想讀本。

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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