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Laurie Bauer T I C S The T h Linguistics Student's e L i n Handbook g u The i s Laurie Bauer t i c s ‘This book is a good idea. It’s not a textbook but a linguistics manual, full of information about concepts and practices and written in clear, straightforward language. It contains, for S t example, a mini language-file (for the many languages referred to in textbooks without u further explanation); brief notes on central concepts in linguistics; the conventions of writing d e Linguistics essays and assignments; technical terms that are have two or more uses and a list of online resources for linguists. There is something here for everyone engaged in Linguistics, from first- n t ' year undergraduates through final-year undergraduates and postgraduates to teaching staff. s I foresee it being a constant companion.’ H Professor Jim Miller, University of Auckland a n The book that tells you all the things you felt you were expected to know about linguistics, but d b Student's were afraid to ask about. o • What do you know about Burushaski and Miwok? o k • What’s the difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic? • What is E-language? • What is a language? Handbook • What does the symbol ‘*’ mean in linguistics? • What do you call the letter ? L • Do parenthetical and non-restrictive mean the same thing? a • How do you write a bibiliographic entry for a work you have not seen? u r i Every student who has asked these questions needs this book. A compendium of useful things e for linguistics students to know, from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics. Part reference B work, part revision guide, and with tables providing summary information on some 280 a languages, the book provides a new learning tool as a supplement to the usual textbooks and u glossaries. e r Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington. Cover design: River Design, Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press E 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF d i barcode n b www.eup.ed.ac.uk u r Laurie Bauer g ISBN 978 0 7486 2759 2 h The Linguistics Student’s Handbook ‘Laurie Bauer’s Handbook is a truly unique, as well as a wonderfully original resource for students coming to grips with the ins and outs of modern linguis- tics. Bauer does what few linguists are able to do well: write in a down-to- earth way about the subject matter. The Handbook is not just about linguistics and its leading ideas, however. It is brimming with all kinds of useful informa- tion to help students understand the very practical side of doing linguistics, such as how to spell diphthong, gloss examples, write assignments in linguistics, and make sense of linguistic notation. The Handbook helps the student of lin- guistics with all the things that the instructor doesn’t quite get round to.’ Professor John Newman, University of Alberta THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK Laurie Bauer EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS © Laurie Bauer, 2007 Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh Typeset in 11/13 Ehrhardt MT and Gill Sans by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester, and printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 2758 5 (hardback) ISBN 978 0 7486 2759 2 (paperback) The right of Laurie Bauer to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Contents Preface vii Abbreviations and conventions used in the text ix Part I Some fundamentals of linguistics 1 Language 3 2 Accent, dialect, variety 7 3 Linguistics 11 4Grammar 19 5Parts of speech 25 6Rules 33 7 The Saussurean dichotomies 41 8 Chomsky’s influence 47 9Form and function 57 10 Contrast and substitution 61 11 Binarity 64 12 Trees 68 13 State versus process 73 14 Native speaker 76 15 The data of linguistics 81 Part II Notation and terminology 16 Notational conventions 95 17 Frequent abbreviations and initialisms 104 18 Terminology: ambiguity 107 19 Terminology: synonymy 116 THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK VI Part III Reading linguistics 20 The International Phonetic Association 127 21 Reading phonetics and phonology 131 22 Foreign expressions 137 23 Letters, accents and diacritics 139 24 Journals 142 25 Linguists’ names 147 26 Laws and principles 150 27 Statistics 162 28 Some on-line resources for linguists 171 Part IV Writing and presenting linguistics 29 Essay writing 177 30 Glosses 185 31 Use versus mention 190 32 Reification 192 33 Spelling 195 Part V Bibliographies 34 Citation etiquette 199 35 Reference lists 208 Part VI Language file Language file 221 Index 382 Preface ‘Handbook’ seems to be a fashionable title, where once the Latinate label ‘manual’ might have held sway. But in the case of this book, it also seems an inevitable title. This book is not a dictionary of linguistics, not an encyclopedia of linguistics, not a textbook of linguistics but contains elements which might be found in all or any of these. It is a book which the tertiary student of lin- guistics will need at hand for continual reference while they are studying. This handbook is intended as the kind of reference work which can be valu- able at any stage in the career of a tertiary linguistics student, and which can fill in the gaps that are often left in lectures and the like. Its main focus is not the nitty-gritty of syntactic theory or the ethics of doing sociolinguistic research: these topics are likely to be covered in detail in lectures, and the opin- ions of your teachers on these topics may be very different from the opinions of the author of this work. Rather, its focus is the kind of general material that may be of interest to any linguistics student, whatever the kind of linguistics they are doing. The organisation of the material is vaguely thematic. In the first part, some of the fundamentals of linguistics are considered: what linguistics is, what a lan- guage is, the fundamental distinctions in structuralist linguistics. These things could be found in many other textbooks and specialised works on linguistics and languages, but very often these fundamental points are rather glossed over in early lectures on linguistics (because they are not easy to deal with) and then ignored in later lectures, or they are dealt with early on in linguistics courses and then often forgotten by students by the time they become central to the prob- lems the students are working with. Although this part is called ‘Some funda- mentals of linguistics’ and deals with topics which are vital to the understanding of linguistic topics, the sections here are seen less as introductions to these THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK VIII topics than as sources of clarification and revision when the topics have already been met. The second part deals with matters of notation and terminology. The third part, called ‘Reading linguistics’ is concerned with the student’s ability to understand the technical aspects of the linguistics texts they are likely to be faced with. Although you cannot write any linguistics without having read some, there are other areas which become much more important when it comes to present- ing material, in essays, assignments or theses. These points appear in the fourth part, ‘Writing and presenting linguistics’. The fifth part deals specifically with the problems raised by writing and understanding reference lists and bibliographies. The sixth and largest part, called the ‘Language file’, attempts to present structural and social information on a large number of languages in a consis- tent format so that students can gain a very brief overview of many of the lan- guages they will hear about in their linguistics courses. It must be admitted that this handbook presents its author’s view, and there are many sections where the author’s perception of what is required may not meet the user’s. Which names students will not know how to pronounce, for example, is probably an impossible question to answer, and any list will both state some things which seem obvious and miss others which are less obvious (or more common) than the author realised. Similarly, some of the areas covered may seem obvious and unnecessary, while others which might have been of value may have been missed. At the risk of being swamped with responses, I would encourage readers and reviewers to let me know where I have failed. If the book finds a wide enough and enthusiastic enough audience, Edinburgh University Press may be persuaded to provide an updated edition which can take such points into account. Finally, I should like to thank all those who have helped by answering ques- tions that arose in the writing of this book, and also my teachers who first fed my interest in linguistics and taught me such fundamentals as I know. Specific thanks go to Richard Arnold, Winifred Bauer, Louise Bourchier, Alana Dickson, Jen Hay, Janet Holmes, Kate Kearns, Marianna Kennedy, Jim Miller, Liz Pearce, Tony Quinn, Emily Rainsford, Theresa Sawicka, Agnes Terraschke, Paul Warren and the anonymous referees for Edinburgh University Press. The IPA chart on p. 129 is reprinted with the permission of the International Phonetic Association, which can be contacted through its website, www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html. Laurie Bauer Wellington, August 2006 Abbreviations and conventions used in the text <…> Enclose spellings /…/ Enclose phonemic transcriptions […] Enclose phonetic transcriptions italics Forms cited in the text (see p.
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