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The Life and Growth of Language /

1108062814

1139856294

9781108062817

9781139856294

The Life and Growth of Language /

[Book]

William Dwight Whitney.

Cambridge :

Cambridge University Press,

2013.

1 online resource (340 pages)

Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- CHAPTER I -- INTRODUCTORY: THE PROBLEMS OF THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER II -- HOW EACH INDIVIDUAL ACQUIRES HIS LANGUAGE: LIFE OF LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER III -- THE CONSERVATIVE AND ALTERATIVE FORCES IN LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER IV -- GROWTH OF LANGUAGE: CHANGE IN THE OUTER FORM OF WORDS -- CHAPTER V -- GROWTH OF LANGUAGE: CHANGE IN THE INNER CONTENT OF WORDS -- CHAPTER VI -- GROWTH OF LANGUAGE: LOSS OF WORDS AND FORMS -- CHAPTER VII -- GROWTH OF LANGUAGE: PRODUCTION OF NEW WORDS AND FORMS -- CHAPTER VIII -- SUMMARY: THE NAME-MAKING PROCESS -- CHAPTER IX -- LOCAL AND CLASS VARIATION OF LANGUAGE: DIALECTS -- CHAPTER X -- INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER XI -- LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE: MATERIAL AND FORM IN LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER XII -- OTHER FAMILIES OF LANGUAGE: THEIR LOCALITY, AGE, AND STRUCTURE -- CHAPTER XIII -- LANGUAGE AND ETHNOLOGY -- CHAPTER XIV -- NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER XV -- THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE: CONCLUSION -- INDEX.

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William Dwight Whitney (1827-94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. After studying in Germany, then at the forefront of linguistic scholarship, he assumed the chair of Sanskrit at Yale in 1854, with comparative philology added to his professorship in 1869. As well as teaching modern languages, Whitney published over 300 scholarly papers and books, acted as chief editor of the ten-volume Century Dictionary, and co-founded the American Philological Association. In this important 1875 work, the influence of evolutionary theory on other branches of nineteenth-century scholarship, not merely biology, is clear in the discussion of the development of language. Whitney's survey is wide-ranging, beginning with an examination of language acquisition and how language shapes or limits our thought processes. Stressing the scientific basis of historical linguistics, he further looks at how different languages have changed over time, in terms of grammatical form, pronunciation and meaning.

9781108062817

Life & Growth of Language

Language and languages.

Whitney, William Dwight.

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