Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Abbreviations
and conventions used in the text
Part I: Some fundamentals of linguistics
1: Language
2: Accent, dialect, variety
3: Linguistics
4: Grammar
5: Parts of speech
6: Rules
7: The Neogrammarians
8: The Saussurean dichotomies
9: Chomsky's influence
10: Some recurrent themes
11: Form and function
12: Contrast and substitution
13: Binarity
14: Trees
15: State versus process
16: Native speaker
17: The data of linguistics
Part II: Notation and terminology
18: Notational conventions
19: Frequent abbreviations and initialisms
20: Terminology: ambiguity
21: Terminology: synonymy
Part III: Reading linguistics
22: The International Phonetic Association
23: Reading phonetics and phonology
24: Foreign expressions
25: Letters, accents and diacritics
26: Laws and principles
27: Statistics
28: Some on-line resources for linguists
29: Writing systems
30: Figures of speech
Part IV: Writing and presenting linguistics
31: Essay writing
32: Glosses
33: Use versus mention
34: Reification
35: Spelling
Part V: Bibliographies
36: Citation etiquette
37: Reference lists
Part VI: Language file
Language file
Index
