Introducing English Linguistics

Further reading
For an overview of the basic tenets of semiotics, see D. Chandler, Semiotics: the Basics (London: Routledge,
2002). A good introduction to Noam Chomsky’s theory of generative grammar can be found in S. Pinker, The
Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007). For
a critique of Chomsky’s views on language, see G. Sampson, The Language Instinct Debate (London:
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005). Functional grammar is described in detail in M. A. K.
Halliday and C. M. I. M. Matthiessen, An Introduction to Functional Grammar, 3rd edn. (London: Hodder
Arnold, 2004).
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