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selected writings of William Dwight Whitney.

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
360

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Table of 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.

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Dewey Decimal Class
410
Library of Congress
P27 .W52 1971

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Pagination
xlv, 360 p.
Number of pages
360

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Open Library
OL4577802M
ISBN 10
0262190877
LCCN
77148966
Library Thing
790347
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557548

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