Chapter 1 Introduction to Linguistics 1.1 What is language? 1.2 The desing of language 1.3 The functions of language 1.4 What is linguistics? 1.5 Some basic distinctions in linguistics 1.6 Major branches of general linguistics Exercises Chapter 2 Phonology 2.1 Phonetics 2.2 Phonology Exercises Chapter 3 Morphology 3.1 Morphology 3.2 What is a morpheme? 3.3 Word-formation 3.4 Open classes and closed classes 3.5 Lexical change Exercises Chapter 4 Syntax 4.1 Overvies 4.2 Syntactic categories 4.3 Syntactic structure 4.4 Structural relations 4.5 A generative grammar 4.6 Transformational rules 4.7 Embedded clauses 4.8 Summing up Exercises Chapter 5 Semantics Chapter 6 Varieties of Language Chapter 7 Language and Thought Chapter 8 Pragmatics Chapter 9 Stylistics Chapter 10 Language Acquisition Chapter 11 Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching Chapter 12 Modern Linguistic Schools and Theories Appendix Glossary