Bauer Laurie. The Linguistics Student's Handbook

Edinburgh University Press. 2007. — 387 p. — ISBN: 0748627596.The book that tells you all the things you felt you were expected to know about linguistics, but were afraid to ask about.What do you know about Burushaski and Miwok?
What's the difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic?
What is E-language?
What is a language?
Do parenthetical and non-restrictive mean the same thing?
How do you write a bibiliographic entry for a work you have not seen?Every student who has asked these questions needs this book. A compendium of useful things for linguistics students to know, from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics. Part reference work, part revision guide, and with tables providing summary information on some 280 languages, the book provides a new learning tool as a supplement to the usual textbooks and glossaries.Some fundamentals of linguistics
Language
Accent, dialect, variety
Linguistics
Grammar
Parts of speech
Rules
The Saussurean dichotomies
Chomsky’s influence
Form and function
Contrast and substitution
Binarity
Trees
State versus process
Native speaker
The data of linguistics
Notation and terminology
Notational conventions
Frequent abbreviations and initialisms
Terminology: ambiguity
Terminology: synonymy
Reading linguistics
The International Phonetic Association
Reading phonetics and phonology
Foreign expressions
Letters, accents and diacritics
Journals
Linguists’ names
Laws and principles
Statistics
Some on-line resources for linguists
Writing and presenting linguistics
Essay writing
Glosses
Use versus mention
Reification
Spelling
Bibliographies
Citation etiquette
Reference lists
Language file
Language file