Language an Introduction to the Study of Speech

Edward Sapir, american anthropologist-linguist (1884-1939)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK

-02- PREFACE

-03- INTRODUCTORY. LANGUAGE DEFINED

-04- THE ELEMENTS OF SPEECH

-05- THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE

-06- GRAMMATICAL PROCESSES

-07- GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS

-08- TYPES OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE

-09- LANGUAGE AS A HISTORICAL PRODUCT. DRIFT

-10- PHONETIC LAW

-11- HOW LANGUAGES INFLUENCE EACH OTHER

-12- LANGUAGE, RACE AND CULTURE

-13- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

-14- FOOTNOTES