Whitney on language : selected writings of William Dwight Whitney

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Whitney on language : selected writings of William Dwight Whitney

edited by Michael Silverstein ; introductory essay by Roman Jakobson

MIT Press, [1971]

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  • 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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