Primary chapaters
1. Introduction: language, languages, and linguistics /Carol Genetti
2. Phonetics: physical dimensions of speech sounds /Matthew Gordon
3. Phonology: organization of speech sounds /Matthew Gordon
4. Morphology: what's in a word? /Marianne Mithun
5. Word classes: evidence from grammatical behavior /Carol Genetti
6. Syntax: words in combination /Carol Genetti
7. Semantics: how language makes sense /Michael Israel
8. Pragmatics: inference for language /Mira Ariel
9. Discourse: language beyond the sentence /Wallace Chafe
10. Prosody: the music of language /Wallace Chafe
11. Language and the social world /Mary Bucholtz
12. Language change: the dynamicity of linguistic systems /Marianne Mithun
13. Language contact and areal linguistics /Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
14. First language acquisition /Patricia Clancy
15. Second language acquisition /Dorothy Chun and Jan Frodesen;

Language Profiles
1. Kabardian /Matthew Gordon and Ayla Applebaum
2. Goemai /Birgit Hellwig
3. Manange /Kristine Hildebrandt
4. Finnish /Ritva Laury
5. Nuuchahnulth (Nootka) /Toshihide Nakayama
6. South Conchucos Quechua /Daniel Hintz
7. Tsez /Bernard Comrie
8. Bardi /Claire Bowern
9. Lowland Chontal /Loretta O'Connor
10. Manambu /Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Carol Genetti
11. Indonesian /Robert Englebretson
12. Seneca /Wallace Chafe
13. Akkadian /Guy Deutscher.