TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitney,William Dwight
AU  - Silverstein,Michael
TI  - Whitney on language: selected writings of William Dwight Whitney 
SN  - 0262190877
AV  - P27 .W52 1971
PY  - 1971///]
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Language and languages
N1  - 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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