• ISBN13: 9788126904150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 22, 2011
• Pages: 204
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 240 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Modern Linguistics that began in the form of philology towards the end of the eighteenth century is now much wider in scope. This book extensively deals with its two most important branches: Descriptive Linguistics and Historical Linguistics. The book written in a very simple and comprehensive language studies thoroughly the following topics in a very lucid manner: • definition and scope of linguistics • nature of language • phonetics and phonology • morphophonemics and morphology • syntactic system • language families and their classification • language change • borrowing • writing systems The book would prove highly useful to all the students of English Language in general and more particularly to the linguists, researchers, and teaching professionals.

Dr M.P. Sinha, a scholar of national repute, had been a former Professor and Head, Department of English in the Kanpur University (now Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University) during 1988-2002. Besides publishing a good number of research papers in reputed journals, he has chaired academic sessions in national and international seminars. His published works are W.B. Yeats: His Poetry and Politics, Research Methods in English, and Major Trends in the Post Independence Indian English Fiction (co-authored with Dr. B. Rani Agrawal).

• 1. Linguistics: Definition and Scope
• 2. Language: Origin and General Characteristics
• 3. Basic Concepts in Linguistics
• 4. Phonetics and Phonology
• 5. Morphology
• 6. Syntactic System
• 7. Structural Linguistics, T.G. Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
• 8. Language Family: Genealogical Classification
• 9. Typological Classification
• 10. Methods of Historical Linguistics
• 11. Language Change
• 12. Borrowing
• 13. Writing Systems
• Suggested Readings
• Figures and Charts
• Figure 1: Organs of Speech
• Figure 2: The King and Papyrus People
• Figure 3: The Indo-European Family of Languages
• Chart 1: List of Symbols
• Chart 2: The International Phonetic Alphabet