Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Languages, Cultures, Nations: A History of Europe -- 2. History of Catalan Linguistics -- Language Description -- 3. Spelling -- 4. Phonology, Phonetics, Intonation -- 5. Morphosyntax -- 5.1 Word Classes, Inflectional Categories and Paradigms -- 5.2 The Simple Sentence -- 5.3 The Complex Sentence -- 5.4 Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences -- 5.5 Lexicalized Syntax: Phraseology -- 6. Pragmatics and Text Linguistics -- 7. Lexicon -- 7.1 General Lexicon -- 7.2 Word-Formation -- 8. Variation and Varieties -- 8.1 Dialects -- 8.2 Social and Functional Variation in Catalan -- 9. Language Corpora -- Language History -- 10. Early Medieval Catalan -- 11. The Growth and Expansion of Catalan (1213-1516) -- 12. The Origins of Modern Catalan: Cultural and Linguistic Evolution -- 13. Renaixença -- 14. Towards Language Institutionalization -- 14.1 The Language Reform, the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and the Work of Pompeu Fabra -- 14.2 From Pompeu Fabra to the Present Day: Language Change, Hindrance to Corpus and Status Planning -- 15 .Onomastics: Personal Names and Place Names -- 16. Translation -- Catalan Today -- 17. Languages in Contact: A Sociocultural Approach -- 18. Language Demography -- 19. Language Law and Language Policies -- 20. Teaching and Learning of Catalan -- 21. Catalan in the Mass Media: The Rise of Stylebooks -- 22. Terminology and Neology -- 23. Language Ideologies in Society -- 24. Migration in Catalonia: Language and Diversity in the Global Era -- 25. Catalan Worldwide -- List of Contributors -- Index