Theoretical Linguistics - textbook

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Book 1 - Introduction. Disposition of language in the realm of mental activities. Brief history of linguistics
Book 2 - Philosophy of Language – We investigate what is language? How it came about? The disposition of language in the mental and social behavior of humans
Book 3 - Use: Pragmatics – What is the language for and how human use it? Analysis of human language usage.
Book 4 - Content: Semantics – How the meaning is attached to the units of speech – to lexemes, to phrases, to clauses, to sentences, to discourse?
Book 5 - Form: Syntax, Morphology, Orthography and Phonology - What are the smallest coding symbols – the morphemes ? How lexemes, phrases, clauses, sentences, are encoded and decoded?
Book 6 - Computational Linguistics – list of major algorithms that are used for language and speech generation and analysis; statistical linguistics: hidden Markov chains; basic statistics; OCR and ARS technologies.

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