Vendryes

Language And Linguistic Introduction To History (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. This is a work remarkable for its scholarship, originality and independence of though. As an introduction to philology it has never been surpassed in terms of combining scholarship or accessibility. Anyone who loves words or who is at all curious about language will appreciate this book, covering as it does all the ground from every useful angle. A level headed and erudite study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136890185
• Artikelnr.: 40343742

Autorenporträt

J. Vendryes

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to History
Preface
The Origin of Language
Part 1 Sounds
Chapter 1 The Sound Mechanisms
Chapter 2 Phonetic Systems and Their Transformations
Chapter 3 The Phonetic Word and the Verbal Image
Part 2 Grammar
Chapter 4 Words and Morphemes
Chapter 5 The Grammatical Categories
Chapter 6 Different Kinds of Words
Chapter 7 Affective Language
Chapter 8 Morphological Mutations
Part 3 Vocabulary
Chapter 9 The Nature and Extent of Vocabularies
Chapter 10 How the Meaning of Words is Modified
Chapter 11 How the Terms that Express Ideas are Changed
Part 4 The Structure of Languages
Chapter 12 Language and Languages
Chapter 13 Dialects and Specialized Languages
Chapter 14 Standard or Common Languages
Chapter 15 The Mutual Influence of Languages
Chapter 16 The Relationship Between Languages, and the Comparative Method
Part 5 Writing
Chapter 17 Origin and Development of Writing
Chapter 18 The Written Language and its Spelling
con The Progress of Language Appendix