Invitation to Linguistics by Richard A Hudson

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The study of language has come a long way since Samuel Johnson describe himself as a maker of dictionaries ---- harmless drudgea . The emphasis in modern linguistics is on descriptive investigations of the way the world speaks ---- and why.

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Invitation to Linguistics by Richard A Hudson

The study of language has come a long way since Samuel Johnson describe himself as a maker of dictionaries ---- harmless drudgea . The emphasis in modern linguistics is on descriptive investigations of the way the world speaks ---- and why.
Richard Hudson is Reader in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College, London, and author of English Complex Sentences (1971), Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar (1976), Sociolinguistics (1980) and Word Grammar (1984).
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ISBN 13 9780631141761
ISBN 10 0631141766
Title Invitation to Linguistics
Author Richard A Hudson
Series Invitation Series
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 1993-05-24
Number of pages 196
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