Introducing English Linguistics

Abstract

Are you looking for a genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad overview of the subject that sustains students' interest and avoids excessive detail? Introducing English Linguistics accomplishes this goal in two ways. First, it takes a top-down approach to language, beginning with the largest unit of linguistic structure, the text, and working its way down through successively smaller structures (sentences, words, and finally speech sounds). The advantage of presenting language this way is that students are first given the larger picture - they study language in context - and then see how the smaller pieces of language are a consequence of the larger goals of linguistic communication. Second, the book does not contain invented examples, as is the case with most comparable texts, but instead takes its sample materials from the major computerised databases of spoken and written English, giving students a more realistic view of language.

Analysis of Code Switching by Efl Student at English Language Education

“…In this research, the writer would like to find the level of code switching (the word, phrase and clause or sentence level). The following are the explanation of word, phrase, clause or sentence according to Meyer, (2009) in his book entitle "Second Language learning and Language Teaching". a.…”

“…The linguistics changing is in the subject and object. According to Meyer (2009), a meaningful combination of phonemes is called by a word. Based on that theory, those words (I, part and you) belong to word.…”

“…The speaker switched kepercayaan diri in Bahasa Indonesia becomes "self condifence" in English. according to Meyer (2009), a group words which has already got meaning but does not contain subject and predicates in it and it is still a part of sentence is called by Phrase. Based on this theory, it can be concluded that the code switching above is in the phrase level.…”

Using Term Location Information to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval

“…Most English simple sentences follow these 5 patterns and exceptions are rare (compound and complex sentences can be split into simple sentences) [10], where nouns and noun-phrases are mostly located in the beginning or the end of sentences. On the other hand, past research has indicated that nouns and noun-phrases are more information-bearing than the other parts of speech in information retrieval (IR) [6,3,8,12].…”

“…English has 5 basic sentence patterns [1,10]: (1) Subject + Verb (e.g., Joe swims); (2) Subject + Verb + Object (e.g., Joe plays the guitar); (3) Subject + Verb + Complement (e.g., Joe becomes a doctor); (4) Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object (e.g., I give her a gift); and (5) Subject + Verb + Object + Complement (e.g., We elect him president). Most English simple sentences follow these 5 patterns and exceptions are rare (compound and complex sentences can be split into simple sentences) [10], where nouns and noun-phrases are mostly located in the beginning or the end of sentences.…”