A treatise on language
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A treatise on language
（Origins of American linguistics, 1643-1914, v. 4）
Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997
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Philosophy of human knowledge
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper, 1836
Expanded and revised edition of Johnson's earlier work, The philosophy of human knowledge, published in 1828
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Beginning in the seventeenth century, with the first appearance of manuals written to enable English speakers to understand and communicate with the American Indians, this set charts the development of linguistic studies in North America over two and a half centuries. The set also examines the distinguishing characteristics of American English and its independence from British English.
Table of Contents
A Key into the Language of America [1643] Roger Williams 205pp, The Indian Grammar Begun [1666] John Eliot 70pp Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians [1787] Jonathan Edwards 20pp, Dissertations on the English Language [1789] Noah Webster 410pp, A Vocabulary or Collection of Words and Phrases which have been suppposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America [1816] John Pickering 206pp, A Treatise on Language [1836] Alexander Bryan Johnson 276pp, Ethnography and Philology [1846] Horatio Hale Lectures on the English Language [1860] George P Marsh 697pp, Language and the Study of Language [1867] William D Whitney 498pp, Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages [1877] Indian Linguistic Families [1891] John W Powell 104pp, 142pp, Handbook of American Indian Languages [1911] Franz Boas (ed) 1972pp, An Introduction to the Study of Language [1914] Leonard Bloomfield 335pp
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