part 1
chapter1 what is language?
linguistic knowledge
linguistic knowledge and performance
language grammar?
language universals
animal“l(fā)anguages”
what we know about language
summary
references for further reading
exerciese
chapter 2 brain and language
the human braing
the autonomy of language
language and brain development
the evolution of language
summary
references for further reading
exerciese
part 2 grammatical aspects of language
chapter 3 morphologg:the word of language
dictionarise
content words and functionwords morphemes:the minimal units of meanign
rules of word formation
sign language morphology
word coinage
grammatical morphemes
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part 3 the psgchologg of language
part 4 language and society
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