This contains material adapted from the following works
- Anderson, Catherine, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Derek Denis, Julianne Doner, Margaret Grant, Nathan Sanders, and Ai Taniguchi (2022), Essentials of Linguistics. 2nd edition. Ontario: University of Ontario. [Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Sections 4.6 and 4.7, Parts of Sections 5.2 and 5.4, Section 5.5, Parts of Sections 5.8, Parts of Section 9.2]
- Doner, Julianne. 2024. The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures. Manitoba: Open Ed. [Parts of Section 3.1]
- Hallsby, Atilla. 2022. Reading rhetorical theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries. [First part of Section 2.3]
- Kroeger, Paul. 2022. Analyzing meaning: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. Third edition. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. [Sections 6.7 and 6.8].
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In addition, sections and chapters were written specifically for this version of the book:
- Chapter 2: Sections 2.1, 2.2, the second part of Section 2.3, and Section 2.4 (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
- Chapter 4: Section 4.1, 4.2 (with inspiration from Anderson et al.), 4.3, 4.4 and the introduction and second part of 4.5 (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
- Chapter 5: Section 5.1 (Kirsten Middeke/Anatol Stefanowitsch), parts of Section 5.2 and 5.4, Section 5.3, Section 5.6, Section 5.7, Section 5.9 (Anatol Stefanowitsch), Section 5.10 (Kirsten Middeke/Elif Kara)
- Chapter 6: Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6 (Anatol Stefanowitsch), Section 6.9 (Kirsten Middeke)
- Chapter 7 (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
- Chapter 8 (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
- Chapter 9: Section 9.1, 9.3, 9.4 (Anatol Stefanowitsch), parts of Section 9.2 (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
- Chapter 10 (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
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