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Table of contents
1 Basic questions
2 Basic concepts (glossary of basic terms)
3 Timeline of discovery of basic concepts
4 People
5 Subfields

     Basic questions  

What are the basic questions asked in linguistics?

  1. What is language?
  2. How did it/does it evolve?

(The answers are not necessarily basic or easy to understand.)

     Basic concepts (glossary of basic terms)  

What basic concepts / terms do I have to know to talk about linguistics?

     Timeline of discovery of basic concepts  

When were the basic concepts first described and by whom?

     People  

People who had a significant influence on the development of the field

     Subfields