Language and the Study of Language - Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science

Klappentext Published in 1867, Yale professor Whitney's lectures on linguistics brought influential German theories on philology to an Anglophone audience. Zusammenfassung William Dwight Whitney (1827–94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. This 1867 work brought recent German scholarship to a wider Anglophone audience. He deals with English and its variants (including American English), the Indo-European language family and methods of linguistic research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introductory; 2. Nature of the force which produces the changes of language; 3. Phonetic change; 4. Varying rate and kind of linguistic growth, and causes affecting it; 5. Erroneous views of the relations of dialects; 6. Languages and literatures of the Germanic, Slavonic, Lithuanic, Celtic, Italic, Greek, Iranian and Indian branches of Indo-European speech; 7. Beginning of Indo-European language; 8. Families of languages, how established; 9. Uncertainties of genetic classification of languages; 10. Classification of languages; 11. Origin of language; 12. Why men alone can speak.

Product details

• Authors: William Dwight Whitney
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2013
• EAN: 9781108062770
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06277-0
• No. of pages: 508
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics