Linguistics

by Anne E. Baker (Editor), Kees Hengeveld (Editor)

Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics.

Genres: Linguistics, School

472 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2012

Reviews

[Kyo]

It was a good introduction to linguistics I'd say, sometimes it goes over things too quickly or it gives an important concept without completely explaining it. But in general, it seemed to cover the most important parts about linguistics and the style itself was nice to read.

[maura lammers]

i won’t reciew this since i read it for uni 😭😭😭 but since the book was pretty massive i still wanted to make it count for my reading goal lol

[Sune]

Honestly best vermakelijk. Wel jammer dat er zoveel spelfouten in stonden, dat is dan toch weer jammer bij een linguistics boek 😔

[Miriam]

good use of examples to make the content understandable

[Mara]

Very informative book about linguistics, explains everything quite well, and talks about most if not all subfields of the study of linguistics.

[Alisha]

I really liked this book as an introduction to linguistics and all of its sub-fields. It flows really well, is easy to understand, and is concise. I especially liked all of the examples from different languages from around the globe. I feel like I have a much better understanding about the variation of languages. This book makes it clear that linguistics is a rich field with many different areas of study, and does a good job of introducing the reader to each one.

I do wish that some of the topics had been more thorough. There are a lot of topics I find fascinating that didn't seem to be as in depth for some reason. Some of these topics include language change and the evolution of languages, language families, bilingualism, and neurolinguistics.