An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Great book just as advertised

it was ripped....

I am renting this textbook for the semester. It arrived timely and is the correct edition, but it is in worse shape than I expected. The cover is falling off before I even start reading it. Who knows how it will look by the end of the semester.

Great textbook. Didn't make introductory linguistic concepts any more complicated than they needed to be. However it is a introductory linguistics textbook so....unless that's your thing....