Foundations of language /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Macmillan,
1950
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| Edition: | Second printing : |
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Table of Contents:
- I. General survey of language and of linguistics
- II. What is language?
- III. Phonetics and phonology: the physiological aspect of language
- IV. Language and thought: the mental aspect of language
- V. Language and society: the social aspect of language
- VI. Morphology: the parts of speech
- VII. Morphology: the grammatical categories
- VIII. Syntax: the mutual relation of words
- IX. Semantics: the changing meanings of words
- X. Etymology and linguistic method: the historical aspect of words
- XI. Classification of languages: the Indo-European languages
- XII. Classification of languages: the non-Indo-European languages
- XIII. The history of the study of language