An Introduction to Linguistics

This is an excellent book on Linguistics. It gives a brief introduction on the related topics.

For several years, this book has proved lo be useful to students who wanted an introduction to Linguistics. Grammar and Semantics. The requirement of the students was. and is, for a book that familiarizes them with a new subject and creates interest in studying it further.
In order to make this book even more comprehensive, we have now added a couple of new chapters and made some additions in the existing ones. A new
chapter on Language Variation (Chapter 5) deals with some important terms such as dialect, accent, and stylistics, and gives instances of varieties of English around the world. One more new chapter (Chapter 11) on Supra-sentential Grammar covering rules of cohesion and linkage, which is a must for the study of linguistics today, has been added.
We hope these additions as well as other modifications to the text will add to the usefulness of this book for students. We are grateful to Professor J. Sethi, former Professor, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages. Hyderabad, and an accomplished writer himself, for taking the time to comment on the revisions.