Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction, by Peter Matthews

I started reading this book after I decided to do some linguistic modules, and I finished it after the first week of the course, during which time I've been reading a few other set books, so it's not altogether easy to remember which facts came from which book. But on the whole I think this was pretty good, with the exception of a section describing "regular patterns of 'vowel harmony' in Turkish" which I struggled with a couple of times before giving up as a bad job. Here are some of the things I highlighted from this book:

Completed : 09-Oct-2003

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