CHAPTER Ⅰ．WHAT IS LANGUAGE? 1
Applications 3
CHAPTER Ⅱ．SOUNDS:THE BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS 4
Phonetics and Phonemics 4
Segmental Phonemes 5
Suprasegmental Phonemes 11
Applications 16
CHAPTER Ⅲ．HOW PHONEMES COMBINE TO MAKE MORPHEMES 19
Morphemes 19
The Four Form Classes 21
The Structure words 26
Applications 35
CHAPTER Ⅳ．BASIC STATEMENT PATTERNS 39
Applications 46
CHAPTER Ⅴ．EXPANDING THE BASIC STATEMENT PATTERNS 52
Noun Clusters 52
Verb Clusters 62
Applications 68
CHAPTER Ⅵ．IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENTS AND SENTENCE MODIFIERS 70
Immediate Constituents 70
IC＇s of the Sentence 72
IC＇s of Noun Clusters 74
IC＇s of Verb Clusters 77
IC＇s of P-Groups 82
IC＇s of S-Groups 85
Sentence Modifiers 87
Verb Clusters 88
S-Groups 89
Applications 91
CHAPTER Ⅶ．QUESTION AND REQUEST PATTERNS,AND OTHERS 93
Question Patterns 93
Request Patterns 99
Vocatives 101
Appositives 101
Negatives 102
Applications 103
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 104
APPENDIX 108
INDEX 121