Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

1. Preface 2. 1. The cognitive basis of language: Language and thought 3. 2. What's in a word?: Lexicology 4. 3. Meaningful building blocks: Morphology 5. 4. Putting concepts together: Syntax 6. 5. The sounds of language: Phonetics and Phonology 7. 6. Language, culture and meaning: Cross-cultural semantics 8. 7. Doing things with words: Pragmatics 9. 8. Structuring texts: Text linguistics 10. 9. Language across time: Historical linguistics 11. 10. Comparing languages: Language: classification, typology, and contrastive linguistics 12. References 13. Subject index