Foreword iii // Table of Contents v // Chapter 1 Phonetics & Phonology 1 // 1 General Phonetics and Phonology 1 // 1.1 Language and Linguistics 1 // 1.2 Phonetics as a Linguistic Discipline 2 // 1.3 Production "f Speech 3 // 1.4 Classification of Sounds 9 // 1.5 Fundamentals of Phonology 10 // 2 History of Phonetics and Phonology in the Field of English Studies 14 // 2.1 Phonetic Research 14 // 2.2 Phonological research 17 // 2.3 Advances in Phonological Theory and Schools of Phonology 19 // 3 20th Century English Phonetics and Phonology 22 // 3.1 Pronunciation of Present-Day English 22 // 3.2 Notation 22 // 4 The Subsystem of English Vocalic Phonemes 26 // 4.1 Articulation, Acoustics and Perception of Vowels 26 // 4.2 Phonetic Description of English Monophthongs 30 // 4.3 Phonetic Description of English Diphthongs 31 // 4.4 Phonological Interpretation of English Diphthongs 34 // 5 Hie Subsystem of English Consonantal Phonemes 35 // 5.1 Classification of English Consonants 35 // 5.2 Phonological Interpretation of English Consonants 37 // 5.3 Characteristics of English Consonant Groups 38 // 6 Connected Speech 45 // 6.1 Basic Units in Speech Continuum 45 // 6.2 Speech Modulation 46 // 7 Economy of Articulatory EtTort 56 // 7.1 Assimilation 56 // 7.2 Assibilalion 57 // 7.3 Affrication 57 // 7.4 Elision 57 // 7.5Liaison 58 // References 59 // Chapter 2 Morphology 61 // 1 Place of morphology 61 // 2 Status of ‘word’ 62 // 2.1 Attempts at defining a ‘word’ 62 // 2.2 ‘Word’ as a semantic entity 63 // 2.3 "Word’ as a phonological unit 64 // 2.4 ‘Word’ as a syntactic unit 65 // 2.5 Two senses of ’word7 as a linguistic temi 66 // 3 An alternative: Morpheme 67 // 3.1 A new concept of grammar 67 // 3.2 Morpheme identification 68 // 3.3 Morpheme properties 69 // 3.4 Morphemic recurrence 70 // 3.5 Morpheme irregularities: morphologically conditioned allomorphs 73 //
4 Morpheme combination and patterning 76 // 4.1 Ways of morpheme arrangement 77 // 4.2 Morphemic models 78 // 4.3 Hockett’s ’‘privileges of occurrence7’ 79 // 5 Morphology - derivational and inflectional 80 // 5.1 Morphology as a sub-branch of linguistics 80 // 5.2 Morphology as paradigmatics and/or morphemics 82 // 5.3 Morphology and the issues of concord and government 82 // 5.4 Inflectional and derivational morphemes 83 // 6 Notes on grammatical categories 88 // 6.1 Explaining the temi ’category7 88 // 6.2 Morpheme distribution 88 // 6.3 Defining some of the respective categories 89 // References 92 // Chapter 3 Word-Formation 93 // 1 Place and scope of word-formation 93 // 1.1 Place of word-formation within the system of linguistics 93 // 1.2 Scope of word-formation 97 // 2 Word-tonnati on processes 99 // 2.1 Compounding 99 // 2.2 Affixation 105 // 2.3 Conversion 107 // 2.4 Back-fonnation . 109 // 2.5 Blending 110 // 2.6 Shortening of complex words 111 // 2.7 Reduplication 112 // 3 Word-fonnation theories 112 // 3.1 Structuralist school 112 // 3.2 Transformationalist hypothesis 113 // 3.3 Lexicalist hypothesis 115 // I Some fundamental notions 116 // 4.1 Lexicalization 116 // 4.2 Productivity 118 // 4.3 Blocking 121 // 4.4 Actual and potential words 123 // 4.5 Headedness 124 // 4.6 Level-ordering theories 126 // Keferences 128 // Chapter 4 Lexical semantics 133 // 1 I ,exicology as a branch of linguistics 133 // 1.1. Lexicology vs. lexicography, vocabulary vs. grammar 133 // 1.2 Main issues in lexicology 134 // 2 I ixtra-linguistic reality and concepts 135 // 2.1 Amorphous vs. discrete 135 // 2.2 Segmentation and organization 136 // 2.3 Different categorizations 136 // 1 Word 137 // 3.1 Word definition 137 // 3.2 Phonological and orthographic words 138 // 3.3 Word in English and in synthetic languages 138 // I Lexeme (lexical unit), phraseme 138 //
4.1 Word V.9. lexeme, phraseme 138 // 4.2 Lexeme vs. lexical unit 139 // 5 Meaning, denotation, sense, signification, referent 140 // 5.1 Lexeme as a linguistic sign 140 // 5.2 Conceptual and other values 140 // 5.3 Lexeme as microsystem and microstructure 140 // 5.4 Meaning vs. sense 141 // 5.5 Designation 141 // 5.6 Referent 142 // 6 Components of meaning, componentia! analysis 142 // 6.1 Denotation 142 // 6.2 Connotation 142 // 6.3 Relational features 143 // 6.4 Inferential meaning 144 // 6.5 Hierarchy of semes, binary opposition 144 // 6.6 Componential analysis 144 // 7 Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations, collocation 146 // 7.1 Paradigmatic relation 146 // 7.2 Syntagmatic relations 147 // 7.3 Inclusion, scale, shift of meaning, causative relation 148 // 8 Motivation and arbitrariness 149 // 8.1 Language sign models: Ogden - Richards, Saussure 149 // 8.2 Iconic sign 150 // 9 Semasiological approach 150 // 9.1 Polysemy 150 // 9.2 Homonymy 151 // 10 Onomasiological approach 153 // 10.1 Synonymy 153 // 10.2 Antonymy 155 // 10.3 Hyponymy, hyper ??? 157 // 11 Lexicon as a system 158 // 11.1 Contribution of structuralism 158 // 11.2 Balance in the system 159 // 12 Semantic fields 160 // 12.1 Field as a network 160 // 12.2 System and subsystems 161 // 12.3 Samples of lexical fields 161 // 12.4 Lexical configurations 163 // 12.5 Part-whole relation 164 // 12.6 Asyimnetry and gaps 165 // 13 Change of meaning 167 // 13.1 Types of change 167 // 13.2 Change from the aspect of logic 167 // 13.3 Transfer of meaning 169 // 14 Approach to changes from the aspect of motivation 171 // 14.1 Change due to change in reality 171 // 14.2 Change due to a conflict in the system 171 // 14.3 Folk etymology 171 // 15 Proper names 172 // 16 Total word stock 173 // References 174 // Chapter 5 Syntax 177 // 1 Syntax in the concept of the Prague school and in British grammar 177 //
1.1 Introduction 177 // 1.2 Domestic tradition 177 // 1.3 Basic syntactic concepts 180 // 1.4 Multiple sentence 186 // 1.5 Concluding remarks 194 // 2 The international scene 196 // 2.1 hitroduction 196 // 2.2 The Transformational Generative Grammar of N. Chomsky 198 // 2.3 Lexical Functional Grammar 214 // 2.4 Optimality Theory 219 // 2.5 Concluding remarks 223 // i I nglish Syntax in Functional Generative Description 225 // 3.1. Dependency syntax in underlying structure 225 // 3.2. Classifying the valency slots 227 // 3.3. Examples of simplified valency frames 232 // 3.4. An asymmetry between meaning and content 233 // 3.5. Complex sentence 234 // 3.6. Relationships between meaning and other levels 235 // 3.7. Dependency and coordination 239 // 3.8 Language acquisition 241 // I Topic-focus articulation (information structure) of the sentence 242 // 4.1 General and historical overview 242 // 4.2 Recent accounts 247 // 4.3 Topic and focus in a description based on syntactic dependency 247 // 5 Syntax and semantics 259 // keferences 265 // ( hapter 6 Pragmatics 271 // 1 Preliminaries: general framework 271 // 1.1 Pragmatics: its scope in the past and present 272 // 1.2 Definitions of pragmatics 274 // 1.3 Subcategorization of pragmatics 276 // 1.4 Status of pragmatics 279 // 2 Core topics in pragmatics 280 // 2.1 The analysis of an invisible meaning 280 // 2.2 Presuppositions and entailments: their nature and types 282 // 2.3 Implicatures and inferences 286 // 2.4 Speech act theory 289 // 2.5 Cooperative principle (Conversational implicature) 296 // 3 Tracing pragmatic perspective 305 // 3.1 Deixis 306 // 3.2 Hedging 306 // 4. Concluding remarks 308 // References 310 // Recommended literature 313 // Author index 319 // Subject index 323