Whitney on language
Subtitle: selected writings of William Dwight Whitney.
By: Edited by Michael Silverstein. Introductory essay by Roman Jakobson.
Contributors: Silverstein, Michael, 1945-, ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Language and languages.
Table of contents: title: Whitney on language, by M. Silverstein.; title: The world response to Whitney's principles of linguistic science, by R. Jakobson.; title: William Dwight Whitney, from Forty years' record of the class of 1845, Williams College.; title: Language and the study of language.; title: Phusei or thesei; title: natural or conventional?; title: Steinthal on the origin of language.; title: On mixture in language.; title: The varieties of predication.; title: On the relation of vowels and consonants.; title: On Lepsius's standard alphabet.; title: The principle of economy as a phonetic force.; title: On the nature and designation of the accent in Sanskrit.; title: The study of Hindu grammar and the study of Sanskrit.; title: On the narrative use of imperfect and perfect in the Brāhmaṇas.; title: A botanico-philological problem.