Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 What is linguistics? 1.1.1 Definition 1.1.2 The scope of linguistics 1.1.3 Some important distinctions in linguistics 1.2 What is language? 1.2.1 Definitions of language 1.2.2 Design features of language 1.2.3 Functions of language Revision exercises For further reading Chapter 2 Phonology 2.1 The phonic medium of language 2.2 Phonetics 2.2.1 What is phonetics? 2.2.2 Organs of speech 2.2.3 Orthographic representation of speech sounds-broad and narrow transcriptions 2.2.4 Classification of English speech sounds 2.3 Phonology 2.3.1 Phonology and phonetics 2.3.2 Phone, phoneme, and allophone 2.3.3 Phonemic contrast, complementary distribution, and minimal pair 2.3.4 Some rules in phonology 2.3.5 Suprasegmental features-stress, tone, intona-tion Revision exercises For further reading Chapter 3 Morphology 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Open class and closed class 3.3 Morphemes-the minimal units of meaning 3.4 Analyzing word structures 3.5 Derivational and inflectional morphemes 3.6 Morphological rules of word formation 3.7 Derivation 3.8 Compounds Revision exercises For further reading Chapter 4 Syntax 4.1 What is syntax? 4.2 Categories 4.2.1 Word-level categories 4.2.2 Phrase categories and their structures 4.3 Phrase structure rule 4.3.1 XP rule 4.3.2 Coordination rule 4.4 Phrase elements 4.4.1 Specifiers 4.4.2 Complements 4.4.3 Modifiers 4.5 Sentences (The S rule) 4.6 Transformations 4.6.1 Auxiliary movement 4.6.2 Do insertion 4.6.3 Deep structure and surface structure 4.6.4 Wh movement 4.6.5 Move a and constraints on transformations Revision exercises For further reading Chapter 5 Semantics 5.1 What is semantics? 5.2 Some views concerning the study of meaning 5.2.1The naming theory 5.2.2The conceptualist view 5.2.3 Contextualism 5.2.4 Behaviorism 5.3 Lexical meaning 5.3.1 Sense and reference 5.3.2 Major sense relations 5.4 Sense relations between sentences 5.5 Analysis of meaning 5.5.1 Componential analysis-a way to analyze lexical meaning 5.5.2 Predication analysis-a way to analyze sentence meaning Revision exercises
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