A Short Introduction to the Structure of English

Author： Kazuo Nakazawa ISBN： 978-4-7589-2408-5 First published： 2024 / 6 / 28 Price (in Japan only)： 3,200 yen (Tax Not Included) (248 pages)

Summary

Based on the author’s experience of teaching English and linguistics at the university level, A Short Introduction to the Structure of English is designed to offer fundamental concepts required for the introductory courses for the students who are beginning to study English grammar and linguistics. With a generous amount of examples and exercises provided, it is an extensively easy-to-read and user-friendly textbook.

Contens

Chapter I　Introduction
　1.1 Why Study Linguistics and the Structure of English?
　1.2 Approaches to the Study of English
　[EXERCISES]

Chapter II　Sound and Spelling
　2.1 English Orthography
　2.2 Regularities
　2.3 Irregularities
　[EXERCISES]

Chapter III　Phonetics and Phonology
　3.1 Phonetics vs. Phonology
　3.2 English Consonants and Vowels: Articulatory Definitions
　3.3 The Notion 'Phoneme'
　3.4 English Phonological Rules
　3.5 Some Phonological Universals
　[EXERCISES]

Chapter IV　Morphology
　4.1 Domain of the Study of Morphology
　4.2 The Notion 'Morpheme'
　4.3 Types of Morpheme
　4.4 Types of Word Formation: How New Words Are Formed
　4.5 The Boundary between the Lexical and the Syntactic Structure
　[EXERCISES]

Chapter V　Syntax
　5.1 Domain of the Study of Syntax
　5.2 Phrase Structure and Phrase Structure Rules
　5.3 X-bar Theory
　5.4 Transformations
　5.5 Constraints
　5.6 Case Studies in Syntax
　5.7 Some Universals in Syntax
　5.8 Theories of Syntax: Some Approaches
　[EXERCISES]

Chapter VI　Semantics
　6.1 Domain of the Study of Semantics
　6.2 What Is Meaning?
　6.3 Types of Meaning Properties and Relations
　6.4 Semantic Interpretation of a Sentence
　6.5 Semantics of "Deep Structure"
　6.6 Semantics of "Surface Structure"
　6.7 Word Meaning and Syntax
　6.8 Syntactic and Semantic Generalizations
　[EXERCISES]

Chapter VII　Pragmatics
　7.1 Domain of the Study of Pragmatics: Sentence, Setting, and Participants
　7.2 Grammaticality and Acceptability
　7.3 Speech Acts
　7.4 Cooperative Principle and Implicature
　7.5 Discourse and Conversation: Dynamics of Verbal Behaviors
　[EXERCISES]