Language: A Linguistic Introduction to History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vendryes, J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up to date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317834076
• Artikelnr.: 40172073

Autorenporträt

J. Vendryes

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Origin of Language 1
I: Sounds
I: The Sound Mechanisms 1
II: Phonetic Systems and their Transformations
III: The Phonetic Word and the Verbal Image
II: Grammar
I: Words and Morphemes
II: The Grammatical Categories
III: Different Kinds of Words 1
IV: Affective Language
V: Morphological Mutations 1
III: Vocabulary
I: The Nature and Extent of Vocabularies 1
II: How the Meaning of Words is Modified 1
III: How the Terms that Express Ideas are Changed
IV: The Structure of Languages
I: Language and Languages
II: Dialects and Specialized Languages 1
III: Standard or Common Languages
IV: The Mutual Influence of Languages 1
V: The Relationship between Languages, and the Comparative Method 1
V: Writing
I: Origin and Development of Writing 1
II: The Written Language and Its Spelling
Conclusion
The Progress of Language