Language / Edition 1

by Leonard Bloomfield

Overview

Perhaps 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226060675
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	10/15/1984
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago and Yale University.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
1. The Study of Language
2. The Use of Language
3. Speech-Communities
4. The Languages of the World
5. The Phoneme
6. Types of Phonemes
7. Modifications
8. Phonetic Structure
9. Meaning
10. Grammatical Forms
11. Sentence-Types
12. Syntax
13. Morphology
14. Morphologic Types
15. Substitution
16. Form-Classes and Lexicon
17. Written Records
18. The Comparative Method
19. Dialect Geography
20. Phonetic Change
21. Types of Phonetic Change
22. Fluctuation in the Frequency of Forms
23. Analogic Change
24. Semantic Change
25. Cultural Borrowing
26. Intimate Borrowing
27. Dialect Borrowing
28. Applications and Outlook
Notes
Bibliography
Table of Phonetic Symbols
Index