1. The toolbox for language description Kuiper and Allan 1.2
Linguistics
The toolbox for language description
Kuiper and Allan 1.2

2. What is linguistics? the scientific study of language and languages
It has various branches because languages have many subsystems.
Sub-disciplines of linguistics look at various of these subsystems.

3. Lexis and Morphology the vocabulary of a language and its structure
the internal structure (grammar) of words

4. Phonetics: the study of speech sounds
articulatory
acoustic
auditory

5. Phonology the study of sound systems of languages
what sounds are distinctive in a language

6. Syntax the structure of sentences
how sentences are made up of words and phrases

7. Semantics What is meaning?
How is it related to human conceptual structure?
How is it related to syntax and lexis?

8. Pragmatics
How is the context of an utterance used to interpret the utterance?