Chapter One: An outline of the older history of linguistics...p. 7 // Chapter Two: How to define language?... 15 // Chapter Three: A view of the language system... 18 // Chapter Four: What are phonetics and phonology?...22 // Chapter Five: Notes on morphology. ... 23 // Chapter Six: Problems of grammatical categories... 27 // Chapter Seven: The place of syntax and syntactic studies... 31 // Chapter Eight: What is semantics?... 36 // Chapter Nine: Structuralism in linguistic research... 38 // Chapter Ten: The place of English in language families... 46 // Chapter Eleven: Notes on the semantic system of English... 51 // Chapter Twelve: On the easiness of English grammar. ... 54 // Glossaries... 60 // Glossary I (pronunciation and Slovak equivalents)..p. 60 // Glossary II (Slovak explanation of terms in brief). p .66 // Recommended readings. 78