Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Facts about English
• 2. Principles of modern linguistics
• 3. Language, intuition and corpora
• 4. The sounds of English: phonetics
• 5. Phonology
• 6. Phonetic “reality”
• 7. Contrastive aspects of phonetics and phonology
• 8. Morphology
• 9. Word formation
• 10. Phraseology
• 11. Syntax: traditional grammar
• 12. Valency theory and case grammar
• 13. Theories of grammar and language acquisition
• 14. Semantics: meaning, reference and denotation
• 15. Meaning relations
• 16. Ways of describing meaning
• 17. Pragmatics
• 18. Texts
• 19. Variation in language
• 20. Linguistic change
• Backmatter