Whitney, William Dwight,  1827-1894. <br/><br/>
Whitney on language :  selected writings of William Dwight Whitney / 
Edited by Michael Silverstein, introductory essay by Roman Jakobson. 
 - Cambridge :  MIT Press,  [1971] 
 - xlv, 360 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>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.--A botanico-philological problem. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262190877  RM48.00 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77-148966 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P27  / .W52 1971