A first course in linguistics - Simpson, J.M.Y. (Edinburgh, [Scotland] Edinburgh University Press, 1979)
Primitive notions -- Traditional grammar -- More languages, more problems -- Relationships between languages : comparative philology -- The beginning of linguistics -- Phonetics -- Phonology -- Structuralist grammar : morphology and syntax -- Structuralist grammar : theory and problems -- Transformational-generative grammar : an introduction -- Gerneralised transformations -- The impact of transformational-generative grammar -- The functions of language -- Semantics : theory and problems -- 'Chomskyan' developments in transformational-generative grammar -- Generative semantics and case grammar -- Human language and linguistics.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-296) and index.
Keywords: Linguistics