An Introduction to the Study of Language: New edition

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John Benjamins Publishing, 1 gen 1983 - 383 pagine
This is a fac simile edition of Bloomfield's An Introduction to the Study of Language (New York 1914), with an introductory article by Joseph S. Kess.
Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was responsible for two classic textbooks in the field of linguistics. The earlier, reproduced here, shows some striking differences to his later views, reflecting much of the then-current thinking on language matters. As such, it represents not only an interesting commentary on the theoretical development of an extremely influential linguist, but more importantly, it is a telling document in the evolving history of the discipline and a rich source for the (psycho)linguist interested in how and why we got from where we were to where we are.
 

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CHAPTER I THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
1
CHAPTER II THE PHYSICAL BASIS OP LANGUAGE
18
CHAPTER III THE MENTAL BASIS OF LANGUAGE
56
CHAPTER IV THE FORMS OF LANGUAGE
73
CHAPTER VMORPHOLOGY
120
CHAPTER VI SYNTAX
167
CHAPTER VII INTERNAL CHANGE IN LANGUAGE
195
CHAPTER VIII EXTERNAL CHANGE OF LANGUAGES
259
CHAPTER IX THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGES
292
INDICES
327
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Leonard Bloomfield, an American professor of Germanic languages, created the field of linguistics as a branch of science. In studying such non-Western languages as Tagalog, spoken in the Philippines, he realized the futility of trying to fit all languages into the format of Latin grammar in the common practice in his time. Bloomfield went on to discover the principles of language itself. His book Language (1933) integrated the field of linguistics for the first time. He was one of the founders of the Linguistic Society of America, and he wrote an article for the first issue of its journal in which he explained the need for a society for the new discipline. Bloomfield died in 1949.

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