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This revised second edition contains two new sections, on semantics and grammatical and lexical change, and 472 exercises, to the previous 333. The data has been drawn from 93 different languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. The exercises in the text are mostly in languages other than in English. This is because the authors want to avoid student presuppositions about English, whether from school traditions or the popular press, which would obscure or impede a student's initial comprehension of many features of language structure.

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If you've been teaching upper-level undergraduate introductions to linguistics without Cowan & Rakusan, then you've been scrambling about in search of examples and exercises in phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax long enough. Order the Source Book; in the long run, if it does for you what it did for me, you'll probably wind up just dumping your traditional textbook order. -- Lynn Eubank, University of North Texas

If you’ve been teaching upper-level undergraduate introductions to linguistics without Cowan & Rakusan, then you’ve been scrambling about in search of examples and exercises in phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax long enough. Order the Source Book; in the long run, if it does for you what it did for me, you’ll probably wind up just dumping your traditional textbook order. -- Lynn Eubank, University of North Texas

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