Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• 1: The Nature and Definition of Language 3
• Ii Linguistics as a Science 19
• Iii Descriptive Linguistics 35
• Iv Grammatical Theory 53
• V Phonology 79
• Vi Linguistic Change 101
• Vii Types of Language Classification 119
• Viii Synchronic Universals 137
• Ix Diachronic Generalization 155
• X Higher-Level Explanations 177
• Notes 197
• A List of Symbols 205
• Index 207