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Introduction

 * How Language Works/Organization and conventions in the book
 * How Language Works/What we study
 * How Language Works/How we study language
 * How Language Works/What we don't do: prescribing and evaluating language
 * How Language Works/Dialects and languages
 * How Language Works/Two themes
 * How Language Works/Why study language
 * How Language Works/Problems

Word meanings

 * How Language Works/Reference and proper nouns
 * How Language Works/Categories and common nouns
 * How Language Works/Word senses and taxonomies
 * How Language Works/Metaphor and metonymy
 * How Language Works/Deixis and person
 * How Language Works/Lexical differences among languages
 * How Language Works/Learning meaning
 * How Language Works/Problems

Word forms: units

 * How Language Works/Phonemes
 * How Language Works/Iconicity
 * How Language Works/Vowels
 * How Language Works/English consonants
 * How Language Works/Consonants in other languages
 * How Language Works/Syllables
 * How Language Works/Problems

Word forms: processes

 * How Language Works/Phonetic contexts
 * How Language Works/Assimilation
 * How Language Works/Distribution of phones
 * How Language Works/Learning phonology
 * How Language Works/English accents
 * How Language Works/Phonological change
 * How Language Works/Phonology in the wild
 * How Language Works/Problems

Composition: combining words

 * How Language Works/Attributes and attribution
 * How Language Works/Modification
 * How Language Works/Compositionality and idiomaticity
 * How Language Works/Problems

Sentences

 * How Language Works/States and events
 * How Language Works/Situation schemas and semantic roles
 * How Language Works/Constituency and noun phrases
 * How Language Works/Subjects
 * How Language Works/Direct objects
 * How Language Works/Adjuncts
 * How Language Works/Sentence functions
 * How Language Works/Problems

Grammatical categories

 * How Language Works/Morphemes
 * How Language Works/Grammatical categories and NPs
 * How Language Works/Grammatical categories and verbs
 * How Language Works/Morphophonology
 * How Language Works/Linguistic relativity
 * How Language Works/Problems

Derivation

 * How Language Works/Derivational morphology
 * How Language Works/Foregrounding and backgrounding
 * How Language Works/Active and passive voice
 * How Language Works/More verb derivation
 * How Language Works/Problems

Appendices

 * How Language Works/Phonetic symbols
 * How Language Works/Glossary
 * How Language Works/Languages cited
 * How Language Works/References