This textbook has the basic purpose of preparing students with no linguistic background to discover the grammatical structure of an unwritten language. (IPA) symbols replaced the Americanist symbols in some datasets..
It contains 298 datasets of problems taken from 117 spoken languages.
The Laboratory Manual for Morphology and Syntax, 7th ed, (revised, 2003), is a practical supplement to accompany the textbook.
The Americanist symbols are used.
This textbook has the basic purpose of preparing students with no linguistic background to discover the grammatical structure of an unwritten language