AN INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS: Language, Grammar and Semantics

by Pushpinder Syal

This compact and engagingly elegant text, now in its Second Edition, continues to provide a succinct introduction to Linguistics. The aim of the book is to introduce basic concepts in Linguistics, and to familiarize the students with the fundamentals of modern Linguistics in a clear and simple manner.
Each chapter is expository as well as explanatory with examples. Most of the examples in grammar and semantics are based on the structure of the English Language, but the principles of language study discussed in the text are applicable to any language in general.
WHAT’S NEW TO THIS EDITION
• An exclusive chapter on the Study of Language Variation (Chapter 5) with important terms such as Dialect, Accent and Stylistics.
• More examples given in the grammar section.
• Devotes an entire chapter to a new topic—Supra-sentential Grammar — a must for Linguistics study today.
• Students of Linguistics and postgraduate students of English pursuing courses in Linguistics should find this text highly useful and a handy companion for their study

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2013

Reviews

[abhishek Chakraborty · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of the examples given in this book are cranky, the concepts are presented in a oblique manner, and always strays into something else as if they themselves are trying to figure it out . The transgenerative grammar part is a horror show, communication part is not even indexed, and the apocayptic part is the semantic one . This book is the epitome of the standard of academic writing in India where maintaining an engaging style and clear conceptual analysis is never taken seriously .

[Muhammad Nurudeen · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is very interesting book

[Sanawar]

How we open the book

[Nikhat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Badly organised, repetitive and hard to engage.

[Moussa Garba · Rating 1 out of 5]

I need PDF of linguistics textbooks

[Mokhtar]

Writing

[V SUNDARRAJAN · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Numan Ahmad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing is worse than reading a poorly written ( complied in this case) book.

[AK · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent book for the first dive into linguistics. The topics are briefly explained with adequate examples.

[Pinkishpinky]

nyc

[Raja Ei · Rating 3 out of 5]

nice book

[DvJhindal]

Now i want learn to about linguistic.