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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.

Author

Michael Silverstein. Introductory essay by Roman Jakobson

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262190879

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

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Updated

2026-03-24