O’Grady W., Archibald J. (ed.). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction

Boston New York: Bedford /St. Martin's, 1997 — 736 p. — ISBN: 0-312-13749-4Language: a preview.
Phonetics: the sounds of language.
Phonology: the function and patterning of sounds.
Morphology: the analysis of word structure.
Syntax: the analysis of sentence structure.
Semantics: the analysis of meaning.
Historical linguistics: the study of language change.
The classification of languages.
Indigenous languages of north America.
First language acquisition.
Second language acquisition.
Psycholinguistics: the study of language processing.
Brain and language.
Language in social contexts.
Writing and language.
Animal communications.
Computational linguistics.