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Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
by William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller
from Bedford/St. Martin's
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Required Reading 
Very thorough and detailed. May not be most exciting book ever written, but it serves its purpose excellently.
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A Well-Written, Easy-to-understand Intro 
I have an earlier edition of this text that I used in a linguistics course several years ago, and I understand that the 5th edition is very similar.
This book is clearly, simply written, making some very complex and abstract concepts clear and understandable. I'm currently working on my Masters in Linguistics, and I regularly refer back to this text in my higher-level classes for clarification of things like Theta roles and x-bar theory (syntax), morphology, phonology, etc.
The text is fairly... more info
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Good introductory text
This book provides a good introduction to many areas of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, language acquisition and computational linguistics. The approach is basically Chomskian.
I would give the book about 3-1/2 stars. It touches on a wide range of linguistic issues, at varying degrees of depth. The description of concepts is fairly sensible. However, there are some issues not treated in adequate depth. For example, early in the book... more info
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An Excellent Introduction
I am not a Linguist, but this book helped me to appreciate all of the differing theories and various fields within what is known as linguistics. If you are seeking a book that is simple to read, yet very comprehensive, I recommend this volume. If you enjoy languages, speech development, regional dialects, language acquisition, theory of language, language trends, and more - this book is for you.Major disciplines coverd include: phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also included in this new... more info
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