YAzykoznanie: Ot Aristotelya do komp'yuternoy lingvistiki

What is linguistics or linguistics? What does this science do, what problems does it face? This book tells the history of linguistics from ancient times to the present and shows how science tries to answer the three main questions related to language - how it works, how it changes over time, and how it functions. Many even educated people think that linguists are polyglots who simply know many languages. This misconception is quite understandable - the expression "learn a language" can be i...