The new and updated third edition of this highly successful textbook includes an additional chapter that presents modern empirical research methods in the form of exemplary small studies. In these projects, the authors invite readers to develop and work on research questions from the fields of phonetics/phonology, morphology, and syntax. Relevant experimental and corpus linguistic techniques are introduced, and students are familiarized with some basic statistical tools necessary for data analysis. The essential difference between this book and its potential competitors lies in its practice-oriented pedagogical approach, which places a strong emphasis on linguistic analysis and argumentation. Language and linguistic theory are viewed from a strictly empirical perspective: given a specific dataset that needs to be explained, theoretical and methodological issues must be resolved in order to analyze and unify the data.