The Scope of Modern Linguistics (content)

1. Back ground

1.1 Linguistics as a Discipline 

1.2 The Scope of Historical Linguistics

1.2.1. The Notion of Change

1.2.2. Earliest forms

1.2.3. Language Families 

2. Saussurian Linguistics

2.2.1. The Modularity of Linguistics

2.2.2. Language as Sign

2.2.3. Langue and Parole

2.2.4. Syntagmatics and Paradigmatics