Surviving Linguistics
Surviving Linguistics

Author: Monica Ann Macaulay

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781574730289

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Surviving Linguistics offers linguistics students clear, practical, and focused advice on how to succeed in graduate school and earn a degree. The book is a valuable resource for students at any stage of their graduate career, from learning to write linguistics papers through completing their dissertation and finding a job. Along the way, the author explains the process of submitting conference abstracts, presenting papers at conferences, publishing journal articles, writing grant applications, creating a CV, and much more. Throughout Surviving Linguistics, Macaulay emphasizes the importance of working with advisors, dissertation committees, and fellow graduate students. The book includes exercises, helpful references to numerous books and on-line resources, and an index.

Surviving Linguistics
Surviving Linguistics

Author: Monica Ann Macaulay

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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"A guide to graduate study in linguistics. Covers learning about graduate school and linguistics, writing for linguists, funding and publishing research, conference papers and posters, the dissertation, and finding a job after graduate school. Includes exercises, references, web addresses, and index"--Provided by publisher.

Historical Linguistics
Historical Linguistics

Author: Lyle Campbell

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-01-07

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0748675590

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This accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change - does not just talk about topics. With abundant examples and exercises, it helps students learn for themselves how to do historical linguistics.Distinctive to the book is its integration of the standard traditional topics with others now considered vital to historical linguistics: explanation of 'why' languages change; sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic change; syntactic change and grammaticalization; distant genetic relationships (how to show that languages are related); areal linguistics; and linguistic prehistory. Examples come from a wide range of languages. Those from the history of more familiar languages such as English, French, German and Spanish make the concepts they illustrate more accessible, while others from numerous non-Indo-European languages help to demonstrate the depth and richness of the concepts and methods they illustrate.With its lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive coverage, this book is not only an invaluable textbook for students coming to the subject for the first time, but also an entertaining and engaging read for specialists in the field.Key Features"e; Practical hands-on approach including numerous student exercises"e; Wide range of languages and examples"e; Accessible writing style aimed at students"e; Comprehensive and insightful coverage of essential topicsKey Wordshistorical linguistics, syntactic change, grammaticalization, language change

Inclusion in Linguistics
Inclusion in Linguistics

Author: Anne H. Charity Hudley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0197755313

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Inclusion in Linguistics, the companion volume to Decolonizing Linguistics, aims to reinvent linguistics as a space of belonging across race, gender, class, disability, geographic region, and more. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.

The Stories of Linguistics
The Stories of Linguistics

Author: Kim Ballard

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1137095636

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What is the nature of human language? How did it originate? How are different languages connected? Exploring over two thousand years of human enquiry, The Stories of Linguistics is an accessible introduction to the individuals, ideas and events that have shaped the field of linguistics. From Herodotus to Chomsky, and from philosophy to neuroscience, Kim Ballard presents a fascinating narrative that brings to life a dynamic subject with a rich history. The Stories of Linguistics: - Uses a thematic rather than a traditional chronological approach to explore the complex development of Western linguistics - Offers an accessible introduction to a field of linguistics which is attracting more and more interest - Guides readers seamlessly through linguistic history, supported by timelines and suggestions for further reading and research With its broad scope and conversational style, The Stories of Linguistics is an ideal introductory text for students at every level, as well as anyone else with an interest in the history and development of language.

Runes and Germanic Linguistics
Runes and Germanic Linguistics

Author: Elmer H. Antonsen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 3110885522

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The older runic inscriptions (ca. AD 150 - 450) represent the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The close relationship of these inscriptions to the archaic Mediterranean writing traditions is demonstrated through the linguistic and orthographic analysis presented here. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding of the prehistory and early history of the present-day Germanic languages, including English, becomes abundantly clear once the accu-mulation of unfounded claims of older mythological and cultic studies is cleared away.

Study Skills for Linguistics
Study Skills for Linguistics

Author: Jeanette Sakel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1317530101

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Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering all the core skills that students of linguistics will require during the early part of their degree, this book gives the reader a basic understanding of the field, as well as confidence in how to find out more and how to prepare for their future career. The key features covered include: subject-specific skills including basic linguistic tools and terminology, such as word classes and grammatical terminology; essential study skills, such as how to perform well in the degree, how to search for and reference literature and how to write an essay; guides for a future with a linguistics degree, including how to write a CV and prepare for a range of graduate destinations. An accessible guide to essential skills in the field of linguistics, Study Skills for Linguistics is a must-read for students contemplating studying this topic, and provides a guide that will take them through their degree and beyond.

Linguistic Fieldwork
Linguistic Fieldwork

Author: C. Bowern

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1137340800

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Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Author: Brian Joseph

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13: 0470756330

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork

Author: Nick Thieberger

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0199571880

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This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches needed to understand a language in its full cultural context and to document it accessibly and enduringly. They consider the application of new technological approaches to recording and documentation, but never lose sight of the crucial relationship between subject and researcher. The book is timely: an increased awareness of dying languages and vanishing dialects has stimulated the impetus for recording them as well as the funds required to do so. The handbook is an indispensible source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural fieldwork.