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<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/">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><span style="font-size: 14px;">Very best</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Grev</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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<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE<br>
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics<br>
The University of Manchester</div>
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School of Arts, Languages and Cultures</div>
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