醉染图书语言导论9787544646437

Preface
About the Authors
CHAPTER 1 What Is Language?
Linguistic Knowledge
Knowledge of the Sound System
Knowledge of Words
Arbitrary Relation of Form and
Meaning
The Creativity of Linguistic
Knowledge
Knowledge of Sentences and
Nonsentences
Linguistic Knowledge and
Performance
What IsGrammar?
Descriptive Grammars
Prescriptive Grammars
Teaching Grammars
Universal Grammar
The Develomn&bsp;of Grammar
Sign Languages: Evidence for
Language Universals
What Is Not (Human) Language
The Birds and the Bees
Can Animals Learn Human
Language?
Language and ThoutSummary
References for Further Reading
Exercises
CHAPTER 2 Morphology: The Words of Language
Content Words and Function Words
Morphemes: The Minimal
Units of Meaning
The Discreteness of Morphemes
Bound and Free Morphemes
Prefixes and Suffixes
Infixes
Circumfixes
Roots and Stems
Bound Roots
Rules of Word Formation
Derivational Morphology
Inflectional Morphology
The Hierarchical Structure of Words
Rule Productivity
Exceptions and Suplios
Lexical Gaps
Other Morphological Processes
Back-Formations
Compounds
"Pullet Surprises"
Sign Language Morphology
Morphological Analysis: Identifying
Morphemes
Summary
References for Further Reading
Exercises
Chapter 3 Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language
Chapter 4 The Meaning of Language
Chapter 5 Phonetics: The Sounds of Language
Chapter 6 Phonology: The Sound Patterns of Language
Chapter 7 Language in Society
Chapter 8 Language Change: The Syllables of Time
Chapter 9 Language Acquisition
Chapter 10 Language Processing and the Human Brain
Chapter 11 Computer Processing of Human Language
Chapter 12 Writing: The ABCs of Language
Glossary
Index

VICTORIA FROMKIN：received her bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1963 and 1965, respectively. She was a member of the faculty of the UCLA Department of Linguistics frm 966 until her death in 2000, and served as ischirfrm 1972 t 976. Frm 979 t 989 she served as the UCLA Graduate Dean and Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs. She was a visiting professor at the Universities of Stockholm, Cambridge, and Oxford. Professor Fromkin served as president of the Linguistics Society of America in 1985, president of the Association of Graduate Schools in 1988, and chair of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Aphasia. She received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and the Professional Achievement Award, and served as the U.S. Delegate and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Permanent Committee of Linguistics (CIPL). She was an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Science, the American Psychological Society, and the Acoustical Society of America, and in 1996 was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. She published more than one hundred books, monographs, and papers on topics concerned with phonetics, phonology, tone languages, African languages, speech errors, processing models, aphasia, and the brain/mind/language interface--all research areas in which she worked.
ROBERT RODMAN：received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1961, a master's degree in mathemat-ics in 1965, a master's degree in linguistics in 1971, and his Ph.D. in linguis-tics in 1973. He has been on the faculties of the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kyoto Industrial College in Japan, and North Carolina State University, where he is currenlyprfessor of computer science. His research areas are forensic linguistics and computer speech processing. Robert resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his two rescued greyhounds Gracie and Shelby-Sue.
NINA HYAMS：received her bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University in 1973 and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in linguistics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1981 and 1983, respectively. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1983, where she is currenlyprfessor o inuistics. Her main areas of research are childhood language develomn ad syntax. She is author of the book Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters (D. Reidel Publishers, 1986), a milestone in language acquisition research. She has also published numerous articles on the development of syntax, morphology, and semantics in children. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Utrecht and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and has given numerous lectures throughout Europe and Japan. Nina lives in Los Angeles with e pl pot, a rescued border collie mutt and his olde English bulldogge companion, the ever soulful Nellie.