Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part One Language -- 1 Introduction: Why Linguistics? -- 2 Translation -- Part Two Phonetics -- 3 Vowels -- 4 Consonants -- Part Three Grammar -- 5 Nouns -- 6 The Noun Phrase -- 7 Verbs -- 8 Other Parts of Speech -- 9 Syntax -- Part Four Poetics -- 10 English and German Versification -- 11 French and Italian Versification -- Part Five Examples -- 12 English Examples -- 13 Italian Examples -- 14 German Examples -- 15 French Examples -- Conclusion -- References -- Index