The Life and Growth of Language
The Life and Growth of Language
William Dwight Whitney
September 2013
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9781108062817
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September 2013Paperback
9781108062817
340 pages
216 × 140 × 19 mm
0.43kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introductory
- 2. How each individual acquires his language
- 3. The conservative and alternative forces in language
- 4. Growth of language
- 5. Growth of language (cont.)
- 6. Growth of language (cont.)
- 7. Growth of language (cont.)
- 8. Summary: the name-making process
- 9. Local and class variation of language
- 10. Indo-European language
- 11. Linguistic structure
- 12. Other families of language
- 13. Language and ethnology
- 14. Nature and origin of language
- 15. The science of language
- Index.
