Title:
Whitney on language; selected writings of William Dwight Whitney. Edited by Michael Silverstein. Introductory essay by Roman Jakobson.
Main Entry:
Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894.
Silverstein, Michael, 1945-, ed.
Publisher:
MIT Press
Publication Date:
[1971]
Publication Place:
Cambridge,
ISBN:
0262190877
Subject:
Language and languages.
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 Brهahmaٍnas.--A botanico-philological problem.
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