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  • INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  • Table of contents
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION
  • REFERENCES
  • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
  • PEEFACE.
  • CONTENTS.
  • CHAPTER I. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
  • CHAPTER II. THE PHYSICAL BASIS OP LANGUAGE.
  • 1. Unconsciousness of speech-movements.
  • 2. Writing an imperfect analysis.
  • 3. The vocal chords.
  • 4. The velum.
  • 5. Oral articulation
  • 6. Oral noise-articulations.
  • 7. Musical oral articulations.
  • 8. Infinite variety of possible sounds.9. Glides and mixtures of articulation.
  • 11. Stress.
  • 13. Duration.
  • 14. Limitation of the articulations in each dialect.
  • 15. Automatic variations.
  • CHAPTER III. THE MENTAL BASIS OF LANGUAGE.
  • 1. The place of language in our mental life.
  • 2. Total experiences.
  • 3. The analysis of total experiences.
  • 4. The naming of objects.
  • 5. The development of abstract words.
  • 6. Psychologic composition of the word.
  • 7. Grammatical categories.
  • 8· Psychologic character of the linguistic forms.
  • 9. Psychologic motives of utterance.10. Interpretation of the linguistic phenomena.
  • CHAPTER IV. THE FORMS OF LANGUAGE.
  • 1. The inarticulate outcry.
  • 2. Primary interjections.
  • 3. Secondary interjections.
  • 4. The arbitrary value of non-interjectioiial utterances.
  • 5. The classifying nature of linguistic expression.
  • 6. Expression of the three types of utterances.
  • 7. The parts of utterances.
  • 8. The word: phonetic character.
  • 9. The word: semantic character.
  • 10. Word-classes.
  • 11. The sentence.
  • CHAPTER V. MORPHOLOGY.
  • 1. The significance of morphologic phenomena.2. Morphologic classification by syntactic use (Parts of speech).
  • 3. Classification by congruence.
  • 4. Phonetic-semantic classes.
  • 5. Classes on a partially phonetic basis. Still other
  • 6. Difference between morphologic classification and non-linguistic association.
  • 7. Classes by composition.
  • 8. Derivation and inflection.
  • 9. The semantic nature of inflection: the commonest categories.
  • 10. The semantic nature of derivation.
  • 11. The phonetic character of the morphologic processes.
  • 12. Word-composition: semantic value.13.-Word-composition not a phonetic process. It
  • 14. Simple word: compound: phrase.
  • CHAPTER VI. SYNTAX.
  • 1. The field of syntax.
  • 2. The discursive relations.
  • 3. The emotional relations.
  • 4. Material relations.
  • 5. Syntactic categories.
  • 6. The expression of syntactic relations: modulation in the sentence.
  • 7. Cross-referring constructions.
  • 8. Congruence.
  • 9. Government.
  • 10. Word-order.
  • 11. Set phrases : the transition from syntax to style.
  • 12. The complex sentence.