INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE BY HERBERT
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER II. ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER III. ON SOUND-CHANGE.
CHAPTER IV. CHANGE IN WORD-SIGNIFICATION.
CHAPTER V. ANALOGY.
CHAPTER VI. THE FUNDAMENTAL FACTS OF SYNTAX.
CHAPTER VII. CHANGE OF MEANING IN SYNTAX.
CHAPTER VIII. CONTAMINATION.
CHAPTER IX. ORIGINAL CREATION.
CHAPTER X. ON ISOLATION AND THE REACTION AGAINST IT.
CHAPTER XI. THE FORMATION OF NEW GROUPS.
CHAPTER XII. ON THE INFLUENCE OF CHANGE IN FUNCTION ON ANALOGICAL FORMATION.
CHAPTER XIII. DISPLACEMENT IN ETYMOLOGICAL GROUPING.
CHAPTER XIV. ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF MEANING.
CHAPTER XV. CATEGORIES: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND GRAMMATICAL.
CHAPTER XVI. DISPLACEMENT OF THE SYNTACTICAL DISTRIBUTION.
CHAPTER XVII. ON CONCORD.
CHAPTER XVIII. ECONOMY OF EXPRESSION.
CHAPTER XIX. RISE OF WORD-FORMATION AND INFLECTION.
CHAPTER XX. THE DIVISION OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
CHAPTER XXI. LANGUAGE AND WRITING.
CHAPTER XXII. ON MIXTURE IN LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE STANDARD LANGUAGE.
INDEX The numbers refer to the pages.
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