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The life and growth of language an outline of linguistic science.

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"The present work needs only a few words by way of introduction. That its subject calls for treatment in the series of which it forms a part, especially at this time, when men's crude and inconsistent views of language are tending to crystallize into shape, no labored argument is required...

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Main Author: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1875.
Series:International scientific series. [American ed.; v. 16]
Subjects:
Language and languages.
Language
Langage et langues.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • CHAPTER
  • 1
  • HOW EACH INDIVIDUAL ACQUIRES HIS LAN
  • 7
  • THE CONSERVATIVE AND ALTERATIVE FORCES
  • 32
  • CHANGE IN THE OUTER
  • 45
  • CHANGE IN THE INNER
  • 76
  • LOSS OF WORDS
  • 98
  • PRODUCTION OF
  • 108
  • THE NAMEMAKING PROCESS
  • 134
  • INDOEUROPEAN LANGUAGE
  • 179
  • LANGUAGE AND ETHNOLOGY
  • 265
  • NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
  • 278
  • CONCLUSION
  • 310
  • THEIR
  • 318.