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My book is also available in Spanish (Fundamentos de lingüística, Ariel, Madrid), even if that translation doesn't refer to the latest edition, but to the previous one.</div>
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<div style="line-break:after-white-space"><span style="font-size:14px">Hi Nigel</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px">For a basic introduction I’d recommend Jeanette Sakel’s <span style="orphans:2; widows:2">2015:</span> <i style="orphans:2; widows:2">Study skills for Linguistics</i><span style="orphans:2; widows:2"> <a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415720465/" originalsrc="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415720465/">http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415720465/</a></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px">I need to declare an interest, as one of the editors. But that means I have read it before recommending it.</span></div>
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<div>On 24 Oct 2025, at 12:50, Nigel Vincent via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:</div>
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A friend has asked me to recommend a good basic introduction to linguistics. It's nearly 20 years since I taught any intro courses and I haven't kept up with the relevant literature. I'd like to suggest to her something that covers most subfields and with no
particular theoretical slant. What would colleagues recommend? Advice gratefully received.</div>
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The University of Manchester</div>
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