{"product_id":"language-and-the-study-of-language-twelve-lectures-on-the-principles-of-linguistic-science-paperback-9781108062770","title":"Language and the Study of Language; Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108062770","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLanguage and the Study of Language\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in 1867, Yale professor Whitney's lectures on linguistics brought influential German theories on philology to an Anglophone audience.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Dwight Whitney (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108062770, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 September 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e508 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWilliam Dwight Whitney (1827–94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. After studying in Germany, then at the forefront of linguistic scholarship, he assumed the chair of Sanskrit at Yale in 1854, with comparative philology added to his professorship in 1869. As well as teaching modern languages, Whitney published over 300 scholarly papers and books, acted as chief editor of the ten-volume Century Dictionary, and co-founded the American Philological Association. This 1867 work is an expanded version of lectures he had given at the Smithsonian Institution and in Boston, rewritten for a wider audience and emphasising the importance of recent German philological scholarship. The first five lectures concentrate mostly on the English language and the study of languages in general, including discussion of regional dialects and American English. The lectures then go on to look at the Indo-European language family as well as methods of linguistic research.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introductory\u003cbr\u003e 2. Nature of the force which produces the changes of language\u003cbr\u003e 3. Phonetic change\u003cbr\u003e 4. Varying rate and kind of linguistic growth, and causes affecting it\u003cbr\u003e 5. Erroneous views of the relations of dialects\u003cbr\u003e 6. Languages and literatures of the Germanic, Slavonic, Lithuanic, Celtic, Italic, Greek, Iranian and Indian branches of Indo-European speech\u003cbr\u003e 7. Beginning of Indo-European language\u003cbr\u003e 8. Families of languages, how established\u003cbr\u003e 9. Uncertainties of genetic classification of languages\u003cbr\u003e 10. Classification of languages\u003cbr\u003e 11. Origin of language\u003cbr\u003e 12. Why men alone can speak.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociolinguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociolinguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociolinguistics%20%5BCFB%5D%22\"\u003eCFB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266143506712,"sku":"9781108062770","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108062770i.jpg?v=1696748457","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/language-and-the-study-of-language-twelve-lectures-on-the-principles-of-linguistic-science-paperback-9781108062770","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}