Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 Introduction -- Language and Linguistics -- Linguistic Theories -- The Structure of Language -- The Description of German -- Universals -- Idealization -- 'Hochdeutsch' -- Social and Stylistic Variation -- Further Reading -- Exercises and Discussion Questions -- 2 Phonology -- Introduction -- Phonetics and Phonology -- The Production of Speech -- The Phoneme -- Phonemic Procedures -- Variation -- Foreign Words -- The German Phonemes -- The System -- Some Problems in the Phonemic Analysis of German -- Peripheral Phonemes -- Phonemic Structure -- The Syllable -- Phonological Features -- Feature Analysis of the German Phonemes -- Phonological Alternations -- Phonological Processes -- Phonological Constraints -- Suprasegmental Phonology -- Stress -- Intonation -- Further Reading -- Exercises and Discussion Questions -- 3 Morphology -- Introduction -- The Word -- Morphological Units -- Morphological Alternations -- Morphological Models -- Inflectional Morphology -- Conjugation -- Declension -- Lexical Morphology -- Derivation and Inflection -- Types of Derivation -- Compounding -- The Structure of Compounds -- Types of Compounds -- Morphological Universals -- Morphology and Syntax -- Further Reading -- Exercises and Discussion Questions -- 4 Classes and Categories -- Introduction -- Word Classes -- Introduction -- Establishing German Word Classes -- Some Word Classes of German -- Conclusion -- Grammatical Categories -- Introduction -- The Grammatical Categories of German -- Further Reading -- Exercises and Discussion Questions -- 5 Syntax -- Introduction -- Syntactic Structure -- Constituent Structure -- Phrase Types -- Dependency -- Syntactic Functions -- Syntactic Models -- Sentence Plans -- Generative Grammar -- The German Sentence -- Sentence Types -- Sentence Structure.

'Word Order' -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Exercises and Discussion Questions -- 6 Lexical Semantics -- Introduction -- Reference -- Sense and Sense Relations -- Synonymy -- Hyponymy -- Compatibility and Incompatibility -- Semantic Fields -- Componential Analysis -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Exercises and Discussion Questions -- 7 German in Use -- Introduction -- The Structure of Utterances -- 'Pragmatic Ordering' -- Thematic Structure -- Information Structure -- Cohesion -- Utterances in Context -- Deixis -- Presupposition -- Implicature -- The Cooperative Principle -- Speech Acts -- The Structure of Conversation -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Exercises and Discussion Questions -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.