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Part 1: General linguistics - the scope of the subject: linguistics as the study of language, and as a science; semanticsPart 2: Theoretical and methodological considerations: abstractions; dialect, idiolect, style; the structural treatment of lexical meaningPart 3: Phonetics: articulatory phonetics; the organs of speech; segmentation - vowel and consonant; acoustic phonetics; plurisegmental features; phonetics in linguisticsPart 4: Phonology: speech and writing; narrow and broad transcription; the phoneme theory; further developmentsPart 5: Grammar - grammatical elements: the sentence; the word; the morpheme; the semantic status of morphemesPart 6: Grammar - grammatical classes, structures and categories: syntactic relations; word classes; immediate constituents; grammatical categories; subclasses and irregularities; transformational-generative linguistics (TG), the theory of syntax, generalized phase structure grammar (GPSG), dependency grammars, post-"structuralist" theories, tagmemics, M.A.K.Halliday - systemic grammar, and stratificational linguisticsPart 7: Linguistic comparison: historically orientated comparison of languages (comparative and historical linguistics); typological comparisonPart 8: Wider perspectives: linguistics and anthropology; - and sociology; - and philosophy; - and psychology; - and language teaching; - and communications engineering; - and literature; outline of the history of linguistic studies in Western Europe