Modern Linguistics (Hardcover)  | Released: 2005

Modern Linguistics that began in the form of philology towards the end of the eighteenth century is now much wider in scope. This book extensively deals with its two most important branches: Descriptive Linguistics and Historical Linguistics. The book written in a very simple and comprehensive language studies thoroughly the following topics in a very lucid manner: definition and scope of linguistics nature of language phonetics and phonology morphophonemics and morphology syntactic system language families and their classification language change borrowing writing systems The book would prove highly useful to all the students of English Language in general and more particularly to the linguists, researchers, and teaching professionals.Table of Contents: 1. Linguistics: Definition and Scope 2. Language: Origin and General Characteristics 3. Basic Concepts in Linguistics 4. Phonetics and Phonology 5. Morphology 6. Syntactic System 7. Structural Linguistics, T.G. Linguistics and Sociolinguistics 8. Language Family: Genealogical Classification 9. Typological Classification 10. Methods of Historical Linguistics 11. Language Change 12. Borrowing 13. Writing Systems Suggested Readings Figures and Charts Figure 1: Organs of Speech Figure 2: The King and Papyrus People Figure 3: The Indo-European Family of Languages Chart 1: List of Symbols Chart 2: The International Phonetic Alphabet