Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and conventions used in the text -- Part I: Some fundamentals of linguistics -- 1 Language -- 2 Accent, dialect, variety -- 3 Linguistics -- 4 Grammar -- 5 Parts of speech -- 6 Rules -- 7 The Saussurean dichotomies -- 8 Chomsky's influence -- 9 Form and function -- 10 Contrast and substitution -- 11 Binarity -- 12 Trees -- 13 State versus process -- 14 Native speaker -- 15 The data of linguistics -- Part II: Notation and terminology -- 16 Notational conventions -- 17 Frequent abbreviations and initialisms -- 18 Terminology: ambiguity -- 19 Terminology: synonymy -- Part III: Reading linguistics -- 20 The International Phonetic Association -- 21 Reading phonetics and phonology -- 22 Foreign expressions -- 23 Letters, accents and diacritics -- 24 Journals -- 25 Linguists' names -- 26 Laws and principles -- 27 Statistics -- 28 Some on-line resources for linguists -- Part IV: Writing and presenting linguistics -- 29 Essay writing -- 30 Glosses -- 31 Use versus mention -- 32 Reification -- 33 Spelling -- Part V: Bibliographies -- 34 Citation etiquette -- 35 Reference lists -- Part VI: Language file -- Language file -- Index.