Jeffries Lesley. Discovering Language. The Structure of Modern English

Palgrave Macmillan 2006. — 271 p.
"Discovering Language" provides students with all the basic descriptive knowledge and tools of analysis they need for studying language. It introduces methods of English language description, from the smallest units of language - sounds - to the largest - texts, by the way of word structure, sentence structure and meaning.Phonetics.
Phonology.
Word.
Phrase.
Clause and Sentence.
Semantics.
Theory, Text and Context.