Table of Contents

1. Preface to the second edition; 2. Chapter 1. The nature of language and linguistics; 3. Chapter 2. Consonants and vowels; 4. Chapter 3. Phonology, phonotactics, and suprasegmentals; 5. Chapter 4. The internal structure of words and processes of word formation; 6. Chapter 5. Grammatical categories and word classes; 7. Chapter 6. Lexical semantics; 8. Chapter 7. Phrasal structure and verb complementation; 9. Chapter 8. Adverbials, auxiliaries, and sentence types; 10. Chapter 9. Finite and nonfinite clauses; 11. Chapter 10. Sentence semantics; 12. Chapter 11. Information structuring and speech acts; 13. Chapter 12. Linguistics in language teaching (by Williams, Howard); 14. References; 15. Glossary; 16. Appendices