内容简介
《普通高等教育“十二五”规划教材：英语语言学概论》是学习英语语言学基础知识的入门书籍。它以介绍英语语言学基本理论和方法为主要目的，重点讲解语言的本质和语言学的研究内容、语言的各个层面以及语言的交叉学科。《普通高等教育“十二五”规划教材：英语语言学概论》每一章后设有相应的练习题，题型参照重点高校英语语言文学专业硕士研究生入学考试中语言学试卷的考题类型设计。本书突出简洁、明了、实用的特点，既可作为英语专业英语语言学课程的教材或教学参考书，还可用作英语专业研究生入学考试的复习材料。
目录
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 What is language？
1.2 Design features of language
1.2.1 Arbitrariness
1.2.2 Duality
1.2.3 Productivity
1.2.4 Displacement
1.2.5 Cultural transmission
1.3 Functions of language
1.3.1 Phatic function
1.3.2 Directive function
1.3.3 Informative function
1.3.4 Interrogative function
1.3.5 Expressive function
1.3.6 Evocative function
1.3.7 Performative function
1.4 What is linguistics？
1.5 Main branches （scope） of linguistics
1.5.1 Phonetics
1.5.2 Phonology
1.5.3 Morphology
1.5.4 Syntax
1.5.5 Semantics
1.5.6 Pragmatics
1.6 Macrolinguistics
1.6.1 Sociolinguistics
1.6.2 Psycholinguistics
1.6.3 Second language acquisition
1.6.4 Linguistics and foreign language teaching
1.7 Some important distinctions in linguistics
1.7.1 Descriptive vs.prescriptive
1.7.2 Synchronic vs.diachronic
1.7.3 Langue and parole
1.7.4 Competence and performance
Exercises
Chapter 2 Phonetics & Phonology
2.1 Phonetics
2.1.1 What is phonetics？
2.1.2 Speech organs
2.1.3 The International Phonetic Alphabet （IPA）
2.1.4 Classification of English speech sounds
2.2 Phonology
2.2.1 Phonology & phonetics
2.2.2 Phone， phoneme and allophone
2.2.3 Distinctive features
2.2.4 Minimal pairs and sets
2.2.5 Complementary distribution
2.2.6 Some rules in phonology
2.2.7 Supersegmental features
Exercises
Chapter 3 Morphology
3.1 Classification of word
3.1.1 Open-class words vs.closed-class words
3.1.2 Variable vs.invariable words
3.1.3 Grammatical words vs.lexical words
3.2 Morphology
3.2.1 Morpheme
3.2.2 Morphs and allomorph
3.3 Morphological rules
3.4 Word formation
3.4.1 Compounding
3.4.2 Derivation
3.4.3 Conversion
3.4.4 Blending
3.4.5 Clipping （Shortening or abbreviation）
3.4.6 Acronym
3.4.7 Back-formation
3.4.8 Borrowing
3.4.9 Coinage
Exercises
Chapter 4 Syntax
4.1 The traditional approach
4.1.1 Categories
4.1.2 Concord and government
4.1.3 Sentence and types of sentence
4.2 The structural approach
4.2.1 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations
4.2.2 Immediate constituent analysis （IC analysis）
4.2.3 Endocentric and exocentric constructions
4.3 The generative approach
4.3.1 Phrase categories and their structures
4.3.2 Phrase structural rules
4.3.3 Sentence rule
4.3.4 Transformational rules （T-rules）
4.4 The functional approach
4.4.1 Functional sentence perspective
4.4.2 Systemic-functional grammar
Exercises
Chapter 5 Semantics
5.1 What is semantics？
5.2 Some views concerning the study of meaning
5.2.1 The naming theory
5.2.2 The conceptualist view
5.2.3 Contextualism
5.2.4 Behaviorism
5.3 Lexical meaning
5.3.1 Sense & reference
5.3.2 Types of meaning
5.3.3 Major sense relations
5.4 Sense relations bet
