Language: An Introduction to the Study of SpeechHarcourt, Brace, 1921 - 258 pages Professor Sapir analyzes, for student and common reader, the elements of language. Among these are the units of language, grammatical concepts and their origins, how languages differ and resemble each other, and the history of the growth of representative languages--Cover. |
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abstract accent affixes agglutinative agglutinative languages analogous analytic Anglo-Saxon articulation Athabaskan languages auditory Chinese Chinook classification complex compound consonants corresponding culture dative definite derivational developed dialects diphthongized distinct duckling English expression fact farmer feel formal French function fundamental fusion guage High German Hupa idea independent words indicate individual Indo-European inflective instance instinctive isolating kill language Latin linguistic matter means ment merely method Middle High German modified morphological nasal nature Nootka notion noun objective Old High German particular phonetic drift phonetic laws phonetic pattern plural polysynthetic possess prefixes pronouns psychological pure-relational purely race radical element rela relational concepts Sanskrit Semitic languages sentence sequence significance sing sounds speaker speech spoken stress suffix syllables symbolic syntactic relations synthetic synthetic languages Takelma tendency tense Tibetan tion tive Tlingit tone uncon variations verb vocalic voiceless vowel Yana