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Whitney on language; selected writings of William Dwight Whitney. / Edited by Michael Silverstein. Introductory essay by Roman Jakobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- xlv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : MIT Press, [1971]
- Contents:
- Whitney on language, by M. Silverstein.
- The world response to Whitney's principles of linguistic science, by R. Jakobson.
- William Dwight Whitney, from Forty years' record of the class of 1845, Williams College.
- Language and the study of language.
- Phusei or thesei
- natural or conventional?
- Steinthal on the origin of language.
- On mixture in language.
- The varieties of predication.
- On the relation of vowels and consonants.
- On Lepsius's standard alphabet.
- The principle of economy as a phonetic force.
- On the nature and designation of the accent in Sanskrit.
- The study of Hindu grammar and the study of Sanskrit.
- On the narrative use of imperfect and perfect in the Brāhmaṇas.
- A botanico-philological problem.
- ISBN:
- 0262190877
- OCLC:
- 211879
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