Language eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about Language.

Language eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about Language.
Classification: 
  of concepts, rigid,
  of linguistic types,
  See Structure, linguistic
“Clicks,”
Composition,
  absence of, in certain languages,
  types of,
  word order as related to,
Concepts,
Concepts, grammatical: 
  analysis of, in sentence,
  classification of,
  concrete,
  concrete relational,
  concreteness in, varying degree of,
  derivational,
  derivational, abstract,
  essential,
  grouping of, non-logical,
  lack of expression of certain,
  pure relational,
  radical,
  redistribution of,
  relational,
  thinning-out of significance of,
  types of,
  typical categories of,
  See Structure, linguistic
Concord,
Concrete concepts.  See Concepts
Conflict,
Consonantal change,
Consonants,
  combinations of,
Cooerdinate sentences,
Corean,
Croce, Benedetto,
Culture,
  language and,
  language as aspect of,
  language, race and,
  reflection of history of, in language,
Culture areas,

D

Danish,
Demonstrative ideas,
Dental articulations,
Derivational concepts.  See Concepts
Determinative structure,
Dialects: 
  causes of,
  compromise between,
  distinctness of,
  drifts in, diverging,
  drifts in, parallel,
  splitting up of,
  unity of,
Diffusion, morphological,
Diphthongs,
Drift, linguistic,
  components of,
  determinants of, in English,
  direction of,
  direction of, illustrated in English,
  examples of general, in English,
  parallelisms in,
  speed of,
  See Phonetic Law; Phonetic processes
Duplication of words,
Dutch,

E

Elements of speech,
Emotion, expression of: 
  involuntary,
  linguistic,
English
  agentive suffix,
  analogical leveling,
  analytic tendency,
  animate and inanimate,
  aspect,
  attribution,
  case, history of,
  compounds,
  concepts, grammatical, in sentence,
  concepts, passage of concrete into derivational,
  consonantal change,
  culture of speakers of,
  desire, expression of,
  diminutive suffix,
  drift,
  duplication, word,
  esthetic qualities,
  feeling-tone,
  form, word,
  French influence on,
  function and form,
  fusing and juxtaposing,
  gender,
  Greek influence on,
  influence of,
  influence on, morphological, lack of deep,
  interrogative words,
  invariable words, tendency to,
  infixing,
  Latin influence on,
  loan-words,
  modality,
  number,
  order, word,
  parts of speech,
  patterning, formal,
  personal relations,
  phonetic drifts, history of,

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