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Whitney on language : selected writings of William Dwight Whitney / Edited by Michael Silverstein, introductory essay by Roman Jakobson.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge : MIT Press, [1971]Description: xlv, 360 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0262190877
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P27 .W52 1971
Contents:
Whitney on language, by M. Silverstein.--The world response to Whitney's principles of linguistic science, by R. Jakobson.--William Dwight Whitney, from Forty years' record of the class of 1845, Williams College.--Language and the study of language.--Phusei or thesei--natural or conventional?--Steinthal on the origin of language.--On mixture in language.--The varieties of predication.--On the relation of vowels and consonants.--On Lepsius's standard alphabet.--The principle of economy as a phonetic force.--On the nature and designation of the accent in Sanskrit.--The study of Hindu grammar and the study of Sanskrit.--On the narrative use of imperfect and perfect in the Br✹ma{uE873}.--A botanico-philological problem.
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Whitney on language, by M. Silverstein.--The world response to Whitney's principles of linguistic science, by R. Jakobson.--William Dwight Whitney, from Forty years' record of the class of 1845, Williams College.--Language and the study of language.--Phusei or thesei--natural or conventional?--Steinthal on the origin of language.--On mixture in language.--The varieties of predication.--On the relation of vowels and consonants.--On Lepsius's standard alphabet.--The principle of economy as a phonetic force.--On the nature and designation of the accent in Sanskrit.--The study of Hindu grammar and the study of Sanskrit.--On the narrative use of imperfect and perfect in the Br✹ma{uE873}.--A botanico-philological problem.

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