Fundamentals of language / by Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982.

Contributor:

Halle, Morris.

Series:

Janua Linguarum. Series Minor

Janua linguarum. Series minor ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Phonetics.

Aphasia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Mouton, 1980, c1956.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Jakobson and Halle's initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists. It builds a solid foundation for Saussurean thinking about linguisic oppositions and establishes distinctive feature theory as the basis of their formal treatment." Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics

Contents:

Front matter

Foreword

PART I: PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS

1. The feature level of language

2. The variety of features and their treatment in linguistics

3. The identification of distinctive features

4. Phonemic patterning

PART II: TWO ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE AND TWO TYPES OF APHASIC DISTURBANCES

1. The linguistic problems of aphasia

2. The twofold character of language

3. Similarity disorder

4. Contiguity disorder

5. The metaphoric and metonymic poles

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical referenceds.

ISBN:

9783110894264

3110894262

OCLC:

843205024