| Description |
621 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 599-605) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Phonemes -- 3. Phonemic notation -- 4. English intonation -- 5. English accent -- 6. English juncture -- 7. Phonetics -- 8. Contoid articulations -- 9. Vocoid articulations; timing and coordination -- 10. Phonemic arrangements; redundancy -- 11. Types of phonemic systems -- 12. Phonemic analysis -- 13. Phonemes and sound -- 14. Morphemes -- 15. Morphemes and phonemes -- 16. The design of a language -- 17. Immediate constituents -- 18. Form classes and constructions -- 19. Words -- 20. Morphology and syntax -- 21. Syntactical construction-types: endocentric -- 22. Syntactical construction-types: exocentric -- 23. Sentences and clauses -- 24. Inflection -- 25. Kinds of syntactical linkage -- 26. Parts of speech -- 27. Grammatical categories -- 28. Derivation -- 29. Surface and deep grammar -- 30. Substitutes -- 31. The grammatical core -- 32. Morphophonemics -- 33. Types of alternation -- 34. Canonical forms and economy -- 35. Secondary effects of phonemic shapes -- 36. Idiom formation -- 37. Types of idioms -- 38. Idiolect, dialect, language -- 39. Common core and overall pattern -- 40. American English stressed syllabics -- 41. Linguistic ontogeny -- 42. Phylogenetic change -- 43. Old and Middle English -- 44. Kinds of phylogenetic change -- 45. Mechanisms of phylogenetic change -- 46. Innovation and survival -- 47. The conditions for borrowing -- 48. Kinds of loans -- 49. Adaptation and impact -- 50. Analogical creation -- 51. Further varieties of analogy -- 52. The nature of sound change -- 53. Coalescence and split -- 54. The consequences of sound change -- 55. Internal reconstruction -- 56. Dialect geography -- 57. The comparative method -- 58. Reconstructing phonemics -- 59. Reconstructing morphophonemics and grammar -- 60. Further results of the comparative method -- 61. Glottochronology -- 62. Writing -- 63. Literature -- 64. Man's place in nature. |
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Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Linguistics.
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English language -- Pronunciation.
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English language -- Grammar.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hockett, Charles Francis. Course in modern linguistics. New York, Macmillan [1958] (OCoLC)583123779 |
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