Table of contents
Preface to the second edition
Chapter 1. The nature of language and linguistics
Chapter 2. Consonants and vowels
Chapter 3. Phonology, phonotactics, and suprasegmentals
Chapter 4. The internal structure of words and processes of word formation
Chapter 5. Grammatical categories and word classes
Chapter 6. Lexical semantics
Chapter 7. Phrasal structure and verb complementation
Chapter 8. Adverbials, auxiliaries, and sentence types
Chapter 9. Finite and nonfinite clauses
Chapter 10. Sentence semantics
Chapter 11. Information structuring and speech acts
Chapter 12. Linguistics in language teaching
References
Glossary
Appendices
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