The Life and Growth of LanguageCambridge University Press, 2013 M09 26 - 340 páginas 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. |
Contenido
OF LANGUAGE | 1 |
H0w EAOH INDIVIDUAL ACQUIRES HIS LAN | 7 |
THR CONSERVATIVE AND ALTERATIVE FORCES | 32 |
CHANGE IN THE OUTER | 45 |
CHANGE IN THE INNER | 76 |
LOSS OR WORDS | 98 |
PRODUCTION OF | 108 |
THE NAMEMAKING PROCESS | 134 |
INDOEUROPEAN LANGUAGE | 179 |
MATERIAL AND FORM | 213 |
THEIR | 228 |
LANGUAGE AND ETHNOLOGY | 265 |
NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE | 278 |
CONCLUSION | 310 |
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The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science William Dwight Whitney Vista de fragmentos - 1979 |
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action adjective alphabet altered analogy ancient Anglo-Saxon animals beginning belongs branches capacity Celts century chapter character classification comparative conception connection consonant dative definite degree derivation dialects difierent distinction elements English example existence expression fact figure final finally find first force French German Germanic language grammatical Greek growth of language guage human illustration importance indefinite individual Indo-European Indo-European language infinitive inflection influence kind Latin learned less limited linguistic linguistic science man’s material means ment mind mode modern modification natural noun office one’s onomatopoetic origin peculiar phonetic change plural possession prefixes present preterit production race reflection relation result root Sanskrit science of language scientific Scythian languages Semitic semivowels separate significant signs sonant sounds speak speakers specific speech structure sufficient suffix suflicient things thought tion tivated tongues utterance variety verb verbal vocabulary vowel whole WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY words