Contents
Chapter 1\tThe Study of Language \t 1
Chapter 2\tThe Use of Language \t 20
Chapter 3\tSpeech-Communities \t 42
Chapter 4\tThe Languages of the World\t 58
Chapter 5\tThe Phoneme \t 75
Chapter 6\tTypes of Phonemes \t 95
Chapter 7\tModifications \t 112
Chapter 8\tPhonetic Structure \t 132
Chapter 9\tMeaning \t 145
Chapter 10\tGrammatical Forms \t 165
Chapter 11\tSentence-Types \t 178
Chapter 12\tSyntax\t 193
Chapter 13\tMorphology \t 217
Chapter 14\tMorphologic Types \t 239
Chapter 15\tSubstitution \t 260
Chapter 16\tForm-Classes and Lexicon \t 279
Chapter 17\tWritten Records \t 297
Chapter 18\tThe Comparative Method \t 314
Chapter 19\tDialect Geography \t 339
Chapter 20\tPhonetic Change \t 365
Chapter 21\tTypes of Phonetic Change\t 390
Chapter 22\tFluctuation in the Frequency of Forms \t 415
Chapter 23\tAnalogic Change \t 428
Chapter 24\tSemantic Change \t 450
Chapter 25\t Cultural Borrowing \t 470
Chapter 26\t Intimate Borrowing \t 488
Chapter 27 \tDialect Borrowing \t 504
Chapter 28 \tApplications and Outlook \t 524
Notes\t 539
Bibliography \t 556
Table of Phonetic Symbols \t 581