Linguistics basics

• Random book I found: Essentials of Linguistics, 2nd edition – Simple Book Publishing
• Also
  • (172) What are some books I can read if I want to get into studying linguistics casually? : linguistics
    • Steven Pinker’s “The Language Instinct” - allegedly really cool but not for my purposes

Essentials of Linguistics, 2nd edition

The online version¹ has cool tests at the end!

Generally: a lot of it is about languages/power, indigenous languages etc. Might be interesting for me wrt. UA/RU and colonialism

• Chapter 5 / Morphology gets interesting
  • 5.7 Inflectional morphology!
• 6: Syntax - even more interesting
  • 6.2 word order
  • p.264 Key grammatical terminology
  • word order
  • really cool and quite technical up until the end, esp. trees
• 7. Semantics
• 8. Pragmatics
  • todo - all of it