LanguagePerhaps the single most influential work of general linguistics published in this century, Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of scholarship. Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, it revolutionized the field when it appeared in 1933 and became the major text of the American descriptivist school. |
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accordingly acoustic adjective alphabet ancient appears borrowing bound form century class-meaning consists consonant constituents construction define derived dialects diphthongs distinctive Dutch example exocentric factors finite verb foreign form-class French Germanic languages Gothic grammatical Grammatik Greek guages habit hearer Indo-European languages inflectional instance irregular isoglosses Italian Jespersen Latin Leipzig lexical linguistic linguistic change linguistic form meaning Menomini Middle English morpheme morphologic native neo-grammarian non-distinctive non-syllabic noun occur Old English Old High German Old Norse older persons phonemes phonetic change phrase plural position Primitive Germanic Primitive Indo-European pronoun pronunciation replaced resemblance Romance languages Russian sandhi Sanskrit Second edition secondary phonemes semantic singular Slavic sound sound-change speak speakers speech speech-community speech-forms speech-sounds spirants spoken standard language stops stress structure substantive substitutes suffix syllable symbols syntactic syntax Tagalog tagmemes taxemes tion underlying form unstressed unvoiced utterance variants voiced vowel writing written records