Chapter I Introduction
1.1 Why Study Linguistics and the Structure of English?
1.2 Approaches to the Study of English
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Chapter II Sound and Spelling
2.1 English Orthography
2.2 Regularities
2.3 Irregularities
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Chapter III Phonetics and Phonology
3.1 Phonetics vs. Phonology
3.2 English Consonants and Vowels: Articulatory Definitions
3.3 The Notion 'Phoneme'
3.4 English Phonological Rules
3.5 Some Phonological Universals
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Chapter IV Morphology
4.1 Domain of the Study of Morphology
4.2 The Notion 'Morpheme'
4.3 Types of Morpheme
4.4 Types of Word Formation: How New Words Are Formed
4.5 The Boundary between the Lexical and the Syntactic Structure
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Chapter V Syntax
5.1 Domain of the Study of Syntax
5.2 Phrase Structure and Phrase Structure Rules
5.3 X-bar Theory
5.4 Transformations
5.5 Constraints
5.6 Case Studies in Syntax
5.7 Some Universals in Syntax
5.8 Theories of Syntax: Some Approaches
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Chapter VI Semantics
6.1 Domain of the Study of Semantics
6.2 What Is Meaning?
6.3 Types of Meaning Properties and Relations
6.4 Semantic Interpretation of a Sentence
6.5 Semantics of "Deep Structure"
6.6 Semantics of "Surface Structure"
6.7 Word Meaning and Syntax
6.8 Syntactic and Semantic Generalizations
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Chapter VII Pragmatics
7.1 Domain of the Study of Pragmatics: Sentence, Setting, and Participants
7.2 Grammaticality and Acceptability
7.3 Speech Acts
7.4 Cooperative Principle and Implicature
7.5 Discourse and Conversation: Dynamics of Verbal Behaviors
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