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THE DESIGN OF LANGUAGE: AN INTRODUCTION TO DESCRIPTIVELINGUISTICS.Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Jeff Siegel, & Julie Piau.Auckland: Longman Paul, 1995. Pp. xv + 471.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Piotr Stalmaszczyk
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Łódź University
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Abstract

The Design of Language is a comprehensive introduction to general descriptive linguistics and the typology of language. The book is divided into nine chapters, which discuss linguistic levels, sounds and phonemes, more abstract phonology, grammatical categories, morphemes, morphophonemics, morphosyntax, syntax, and more abstract syntax. The chapters on abstract phonology and syntax introduce slightly more advanced issues (such as underlying levels, transformational rules, and Universal Grammar); otherwise, the book covers topics introduced at the undergraduate level. The supplementary readings at the end of most sections refer students to other textbooks and primary literature.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 449 - 450
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1998 Cambridge University Press

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