Linguistics

AITCHISON’S THIRD TITLE IN THE COLLECTION. Copyright 1978, 1987 Jean Aitchison; FIRST PRINTED UNDER THE TITLE “GENERAL LINGUISTICS” 1972, second edition 1978, THIRD EDITION 1987 — this copy; ISBN 0 340 41764 1. A Teach Yourself book, and none the worse for it: five parts running from “What is Linguistics?” through sound patterns, words, sentence patterns and meaning, out to language and society, language and mind, change and comparison, and finishing at universal grammar — “Trouble with Transformations” and “The New-look Grammar”.