Source Book for Linguistics: Third revised edition - Softcover

Cowan, William; Rakušan, Jaromira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027221626 ISBN 13: 9789027221629

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999

Synopsis

This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Rakušan’s Source Book for Linguistics. In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical Reconstruction, there are two new chapters: one on Semantics and one on Grammatical and Lexical Change. In addition, an index of the 93 languages and dialects represented in the book has been added, as well as a revised bibliography. The solutions to the exercises have also been revised and expanded. The number of exercises has been increased from 333 to 472. New exercises have been added to most chapters, and many exercises have been revised to focus on new issues in linguistics. The text has been completely reset in high-quality letterpress, with a wide range of phonetic symbols and diacritics. This newly revised edition will continue to be useful as a teaching tool and a source of examples in a variety of linguistic applications.

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Review

If you've been teaching upper-level undergraduate introductions to linguistics without Cowan & Rakusan, then you've been scrambling about in search of examples and exercises in phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax long enough. Order the Source Book; in the long run, if it does for you what it did for me, you'll probably wind up just dumping your traditional textbook order. -- Lynn Eubank, University of North Texas

Synopsis

This revised second edition contains two new sections, on semantics and grammatical and lexical change, and 472 exercises, to the previous 333. The data has been drawn from 93 different languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. The exercises in the text are mostly in languages other than in English. This is because the authors want to avoid student presuppositions about English, whether from school traditions or the popular press, which would obscure or impede a student's initial comprehension of many features of language structure.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9027221626
• ISBN 13: 9789027221629
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 264