VendryesLanguage and Linguistic Introduction to History
Introduction to History
Preface
The Origin of Language
Part 1 Sounds
Chapter 1 The Sound Mechanisms
Chapter 2 Phonetic Systems and Their Transformations
Chapter 3 The Phonetic Word and the Verbal Image
Part 2 Grammar
Chapter 4 Words and Morphemes
Chapter 5 The Grammatical Categories
Chapter 6 Different Kinds of Words
Chapter 7 Affective Language
Chapter 8 Morphological Mutations
Part 3 Vocabulary
Chapter 9 The Nature and Extent of Vocabularies
Chapter 10 How the Meaning of Words is Modified
Chapter 11 How the Terms that Express Ideas are Changed
Part 4 The Structure of Languages
Chapter 12 Language and Languages
Chapter 13 Dialects and Specialized Languages
Chapter 14 Standard or Common Languages
Chapter 15 The Mutual Influence of Languages
Chapter 16 The Relationship Between Languages, and the Comparative Method
Part 5 Writing
Chapter 17 Origin and Development of Writing
Chapter 18 The Written Language and its Spelling
con The Progress of Language Appendix