Trask R.L. - Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide

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9781848317673 - Introducing Ethics

9781848317680 - Introducing Buddha

9781848317697 - Introducing Foucault

9781848317703 - Introducing Relativity

9781848317727 - Introducing Time

9781848317734 - Introducing Statistics

9781848317741 - Introducing Islam

9781848317758 - Introducing Continental Philosophy

9781848317765 - Introducing Slavoj Zizek

9781848317772 - Introducing Stephen Hawking

9781848317789 - Introducing Economics

9781848317796 - Introducing Melanie Klein

9781848317802 - Introducing Critical Theory

9781848317819 - Introducing Genetics

9781848317826 - Introducing Feminism

9781848317833 - Introducing Fractals

Human beings have probably been speaking for as long as we have existed, but it was only around 3,000 years ago that anybody began to be curious about language and to start examining it. This happened independently in two places.

GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS DEVELOPED VERY EARLY IN ANCIENT INDIA.
A DESCRIPTION OF GRAMMAR ALSO APPEARED AMONG ANCIENT GREEKS.

We might begin with an example from the Indian tradition.

An Indian Linguist

Pinis life (circa 5th century BC) is unknown, but his work, the Astdhayy, is a culmination of earlier studies in phonology and grammar.