The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures
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Julianne Doner, The University of Winnepeg
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ISBN 13: 9781987830156
Publisher: University of Manitoba
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the cover
- Accessibility statement
- Becoming a linguist
- Contact the author
- Revisions history
- Part I. Foundations
- What are morphology and syntax?
- The scientific method in morphosyntax
- Theories of grammar and language acquisition
- Linguistic data in morphosyntax
- Decolonizing linguistics
- Kinds of morphemes and morphological processes
- Predicates, arguments, and clauses
- Parts of speech
- Inflectional categories of nouns and verbs
- Capstone project: Language journal
- Part II. Morphology
- Words
- Hierarchical structure in words
- Capstone project: Morphology conlang
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- Lists of tables and figures
- Gloss Template HTML and CSS
About the Book
An open-access textbook that covers core topics in linguistics, focusing on morphology (the structure of words) and syntax (the structure of sentences),
Accessibility
We are committed to meeting and exceeding accessibility standards in our design and delivery of this textbook. This textbook follows the accessibility guidelines found in the Accessibility Checklist for OER Development from eCampus Ontario, which was based on Conestoga Library Services' Adapting or Creating OER accessibility checklist.
About the Contributors
Author
Julianne Doner (she/her) is a sessional instructor at several institutions, including the University of Toronto Mississauga, the University of Guelph-Humber, the University of Victoria, and Seneca College. Julianne has also worked in incorporating Writing Across the Curriculum in the Linguistics department at the University of Toronto and provided support and training to instructors as they transitioned to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of Toronto St. George and Mississauga linguistics departments. She earned her PhD in Linguistics in 2019 from the University of Toronto, with a dissertation on cross-linguistic variation in clausal architecture, incorporating data from more than two dozen languages from over ten different language families. Julianne is currently working on directional particles in Niuean (Polynesian) and a cross-linguistic analysis of the cluster or properties associated with verb-initial word order, including doing fieldwork on K’iche’ (Mayan) in Guatemala. Julianne plays the violin and enjoys dancing Lindy Hop.