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• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Linguistics: Major concepts and research traditions
• 1.1 | Setting the scene
• 1.2 | Central dichotomies
• 1.3 | Three major research traditions in 20th century linguistics
• 1.3.1 | Structuralism
• 1.3.2 | Formalism / Generative linguistics
• 1.3.3 | Functionalism
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 2 Phonetics and phonology: On sounds and sound systems
• 2.1 | Phonetics
• 2.1.1 | Transcription
• 2.1.2 | Speech organs
• 2.1.3 | Types of sounds
• 2.1.3.1 | Consonants
• 2.1.3.2 | Vowels
• 2.2 | Phonology
• 2.2.1 | On determining the phoneme inventory: Segmental phonology
• 2.2.2 | Prosody: Supra-segmental phonology
• 2.2.3 | Phonological processes in connected speech
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 3 Morphology: On the structure and formation of words
• 3.1 | Types of morphemes
• 3.2 | Morphophonemics: Interface of morphology and phonology
• 3.3 | Word formation processes
• 3.3.1 | Derivation
• 3.3.2 | Compounding
• 3.3.3 | Conversion
• 3.3.4 | Shortenings
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 4 Grammar: The ground plan of English
• 4.1 | Inflectional morphology
• 4.2 | Syntax: Building blocks and sentence patterns
• 4.2.1 | Parts of speech
• 4.2.2 | Phrases and clauses
• 4.2.3 | Grammatical relations
• 4.3 | The English verb phrase
• 4.3.1 | Verb types
• 4.3.2 | Tense
• 4.3.3 | Aspect
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 5 Contrastive Linguistics: English and German
• 5.1 | Contrastive Linguistics
• 5.2 | The most striking grammatical differences between English and German
• 5.2.1 | Morphology
• 5.2.2 | Word order
• 5.2.3 | Form-function mappings
• 5.2.4 | Further differences in the verb phrase
• 5.3 | Phonological differences
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 6 Semantics: Word and sentence meaning
• 6.1 | Branches and boundaries of semantics
• 6.2 | Types and facets of meaning
• 6.3 | Structural semantics: Meaning structures in the vocabulary
• 6.3.1 | Lexical fields
• 6.3.2 | Sense relations
• 6.3.3 | Lexical ambiguity: Polysemy and homonymy
• 6.4 | Cognitive semantics: Prototypes and metaphors
• 6.4.1 | Prototypes
• 6.4.2 | Metaphors
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 7 Pragmatics: The study of meaning in context
• 7.1 | Competing definitions: Perspective or component?
• 7.2 | Deixis
• 7.3 | Speech acts
• 7.3.1 | Classification of illocutionary acts
• 7.3.2 | Felicity conditions
• 7.3.3 | Indirect speech acts
• 7.4 | Conversational implicatures
• 7.4.1 | The original theory by Grice
• 7.4.2 | Post-Gricean models
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 8 Sociolinguistics: Regional and social varieties of English
• 8.1 | Different types of varieties
• 8.2 | British and American English: A comparison
• 8.3 | Regional varieties
• 8.3.1 | Traditional and modern dialectology
• 8.3.2 | Syntactic variation in the British Isles
• 8.4 | Social varieties
• 8.5 | Feminist linguistics
• 8.6 | Sociolinguistics and language change
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 9 Turns and trends in 21st century linguistics
• 9.1 | The quantitative turn
• 9.1.1 | Corpus linguistics
• 9.2 | The usage-based turn
• 9.2.1 | Usage-based linguistics
• 9.2.2 | The construction(al)ist turn: Construction Grammar
• 9.3 | The typological turn in World Englishes research
• 9.3.1 | Typological profiles across the anglophone world
• 9.3.2 | Angloversals, varioversals, areoversals
• 9.3.3 | Generalizations from a typological perspective
• 9.4 | The historical turn
• Exercises
• Sources and further reading
• 10 General reference works
• 11 Online resources and appetizers
• 12 Index