Chapter One -- An outline of the older history of linguistics -- Chapter Two: -- How to define language? -- Chapter Three: -- A view of the language system, -- Chapter Four: -- What are phonetics and phonology? -- Chapter Five: -- Notes on morphology -- Chapter Six: -- Problems of grammatical categories -- Chapter Seven: -- The place of syntax and syntactic studies -- Chapter Eight: -- What is semantics? -- Chapter Nine: -- Structuralism in linguistic research -- Chapter Ten: -- The place of English in language families -- Chapter Eleven: -- Notes on the semantic system of English -- Chapter Twelve: -- On the easiness of English grammar