linguistics
The University of Chicago Press
PERSPECTIVES IN LINGUISTICS
Second Edition
John T. Waterman
In this succinct and readable survey, Professor Waterman traces the study
of language from the earliest recorded beginnings to the present. In the
first half of the book, Professor Waterman evaluates the contributions
made by the Greeks and ancient Indians and summarizes the linguistic
achievements of the early and late Middle Ages. He then deals at greater
length with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and proceeds to a
detailed discussion of the theories and principles of historico-comparative
linguistics as developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The second half of
Perspectives in L inguistics
contains a
history of the rise of structuralism in America. The application of
structural principles to historical linguistics is also discussed. In this new
second edition, updated material on the linguistic theories of Noam
Chomsky and
J.
R . Firth has been added to the concluding chapter
entitled " The Twentieth Century." The Selected Bibliography has been
revised and updated.
LC:74-143212
128
/lages
Cloth $7.00
Paper $1.95
PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN TREES
The Arboreal System of a Prehistoric People
Paul Friedrich
In this first major study since 1905 of the arboreal system of the Proto–
Indo-Europeans, Paul Friedrich offers an original and up-dated synthesis
of the fields of botany, linguistics, and anthropology. His hypotheses relate
directly to contemporary research on primitive classification, semantic re–
construction, and ethnosemantics and ethnoscience in general. He arrives
at a number of broad cultural and linguistic points that involve, for ex–
ample, the status of tree names as semantic primitives. Specific inductions
also emerge: the high attrition of arboreal terms in relatively peripheral
stocks, and the remarkable cohesions between four stocks which seem to
be basic in terms of the arboreal question-Italic, Germanic, Baltic, and
Slavic. These and other specific conclusions bear significantly on funda–
mental questions of the Indo-European homeland, and of early Indo-Eu–
ropean dialects and migrations.
LC:70-104332
204 pages
$13.75
THE MODERN ARABIC LITERARY LANGUAGE:
LEXICAL AND STYLISTIC DEVELOPMENTS
Jaroslav Stetkevych
This methodic review of the processes which have led to the moderniza–
tion of the Arabic literary language is the first comprehensive study of
modern Arabic to relate recent developments in the language to the
historical context of Arabic linguistics. The work is not so much a descrip–
tion of the current state of the language as an account of the methods
by which it is changing.
LC:79-123749
160 pages
$4.75
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