This page contains links to the chapters of my textbook An Introduction to Linguistics for Australian Students of German. The chapters have been converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), which makes it possible to embed phonetic fonts and images. All you have to do is get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, install it on your computer, download the relevant file and print it.

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For some reason I was not able to save all of Chapter 7 in one PDF file and had to save it in four separate files. I also had problems with Chapter 14 and had to save it in two parts. The titles of the files should be self-explanatory.

Volume 1 consists of Chapters 1 - 10, plus a Table of Contents and a Bibliography. For those who would like to download the entire volume at once I have zipped the contents to a file called Volume1.zip. (2.651 Meg). The files are also available individually in non-zipped form.

Volume 1 - to download a file, click on the link.

 CONTENT1.PDF is 88 kilobytes. This is the Table of Contents.
 CHAP01.PDF   "Introductory Comments"  is 155 kb.
 CHAP02.PDF   "Communication" is  203 kb.
 CHAP03.PDF   "Dialect and Standard Language" is  217 kb.
 CHAP04.PDF   "The Language Situation in Germany" is 181 kb.
 CHAP05.PDF   "Dialect and Standard Language in the Other German-speaking Countries" is 373 kb.
 CHAP06.PDF   "German in Australia" is 162 kb.
 CHAP07-1.PDF "Phonetics and the International Phonetic Alphabet" (part 1) is 149 kb.
 CHAP07-2.PDF     Part 2 is 138 kb.
 CHAP07-3.PDF     Part 3 is 124 kb.
 CHAP07-4.PDF     Part 4 is  212 kb.
 CHAP08.PDF   "The Organs of Speech - German Consonant Articulation" is 233 kb.
 CHAP09.PDF   "German Vowel Articulation" is 202 kb.
 CHAP10.PDF   "Phonetics and German Spelling" is 181 kb.
 REFPART1.PDF is 92 kb. This is the Bibliography.

Volume 2 consists of Chapters 11 - 21, plus a Table of Contents and a Bibliography. These chapters have been zipped to a file called Volume2.zip. (3.212 Meg). The files are also available individually.

Volume 2 - to download a file, click on the link.

  CONTENT2.PDF is 89 kb. This is the Table of Contents.  
 CHAP11.PDF   "The Phoneme" is 241 kb.
 CHAP12.PDF   "The Phonemes of German" is 282 kb.
 CHAP13.PDF   "Some Phonological Processes in German" is 205 kb.
 CHAP14-1.PDF "Morphology, part 1" (part 1) is 204 kb.
 CHAP14-2.PDF "Morphology, part 1" (part 2) is 211 kb.
 CHAP15.PDF   "Morphology, part 2" is 212 kb.
 CHAP16.PDF   "Syntax and Language Typology" is 262 kb.
 CHAP17.PDF   "History of the German Language 1: Indo-european and Germanic Background" is 315 kb.
 CHAP18.PDF   "Comparative Reconstruction" is 244 kb.
 CHAP19.PDF   "History of the German Language 2: Old High German" is 289 kb.
 CHAP20.PDF   "History of the German Language 3: Middle High German" is 208 kb.
 CHAP21.PDF   "History of the German Language 4: New High German" is 1030 kb.
 REFPART2.PDF is 90 kb. This is the Bibliography.

In the interest of completeness I have also included the title and copyright pages from both volumes and the updated Preface in this zip file. Titles.zip

What is here is subject to change from time to time. The files are current as of October 20, 2005.

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