Elements of the Science of Language

Taraporewala, Irach Jehangir Sorabji [1884 - 1956]

Published by University of Calcutta Press, Calcutta, 1978

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half-cloth Minor rubbing. A stain to page-edges of pages 24 - 34. Good. 4 folding charts. 21x13cm, xxxiii,642 pp, Crude binder's blind half-cloth with original cover wraps bound-in. Contents: Introduction: The Psychology of Speech: Branches of Linguistic Studies; Language Types & Classification of Languages; Some Considerations of Syntactical Growth; Growth of Languages; The Intellectual Laws of Language: Analogy & Kindred Phenomena; Semantics or the Science of Meaning;The Production & Classifcation of Sounds; Phonetic Tendencies in Language and Phonetic Change; Form-Building & Word-Building; Linguistic Palaeontology; The Languages of India; The Indo-European Languages; The Various Language Families of the World; History of Linguistic Studies in India & the West. Minor rubbing. A stain to page-edges of pages 24 - 34. Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elements of the Science of Language
• Publisher: University of Calcutta Press, Calcutta
• Publication Date: 1978
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Fourth edition