A Short Introduction to the Structure of English

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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