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Language: Its Nature Development And Origin

by Otto Jespersen

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Author
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943
Title
Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin
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Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
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P: Language and Literatures
Subject
Language and languages
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Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 53038
Release Date
September 12, 2016
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Contents

  1. 1.BY THE SAME AUTHOR — LANGUAGE ITS NATURE DEVELOPMENT AND ORIGIN — PREFACE — CONTENTS — ABBREVIATIONS OF BOOK TITLES, ETC. — PHONETIC SYMBOLS
  2. 2.BOOK I HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE — CHAPTER I BEFORE 1800 — I.—§ 1. Antiquity. — I.—§ 2. Middle Ages and Renaissance. — I.—§ 3. Eighteenth-century Speculation. Herder. — I.—§ 4. Jenisch.
  3. 3.CHAPTER II BEGINNING OF NINETEENTH CENTURY — II.—§ 1. Introduction. Sanskrit. — II.—§ 2. Friedrich von Schlegel. — II.—§ 3. Rasmus Rask. — II.—§ 4. Jacob Grimm. — II.—§ 5. The Sound Shift. — II.—§ 6. Franz Bopp. — II.—§ 7. Bopp continued. — II.—§ 8. Wilhelm von Humboldt. — II.—§ 9. Grimm Once More.
  4. 4.CHAPTER III MIDDLE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY — III.—§ 1. After Bopp and Grimm. — III.—§ 2. K. M. Rapp. — III.—§ 3. J. H. Bredsdorff. — III.—§ 4. August Schleicher. — III.—§ 5. Classification of Languages. — III.—§ 6. Reconstruction. — III.—§ 7. Curtius, Madvig, and Specialists. — III.—§ 8. Max Müller and Whitney.
  5. 5.CHAPTER IV END OF NINETEENTH CENTURY — IV.—§ 1. Achievements about 1870. — IV.—§ 2. New Discoveries. — IV.—§ 3. Phonetic Laws and Analogy. — IV.—§ 4. General Tendencies.
  6. 6.BOOK II THE CHILD — CHAPTER V SOUNDS — V.—§ 1. From Screaming to Talking. — V.—§ 2. First Sounds. — V.—§ 3. Sound-laws of the Next Stage. — V.—§ 4. Groups of Sounds. — V.—§ 5. Mutilations and Reduplications. — V.—§ 6. Correction. — V.—§ 7. Tone.
  7. 7.CHAPTER VI WORDS — VI.—§ 1. Introductory. — VI.—§ 2. First Period. — VI.—§ 3. Father and Mother. — VI.—§ 4. The Delimitation of Meaning. — VI.—§ 5. Numerals. Time. — VI.—§ 6. Various Difficulties. — VI.—§ 7. Shifters. — VI.—§ 8. Extent of Vocabulary. — VI.—§ 9. Summary.
  8. 8.CHAPTER VII GRAMMAR — VII.—§ 1. Introductory. — VII.—§ 2. Substantives and Adjectives. — VII.—§ 3. Verbs. — VII.—§ 4. Degrees of Consciousness. — VII.—§ 5. Word-formation. — VII.—§ 6. Word-division. — VII.—§ 7. Sentences. — VII.—§ 8. Negation and Question. — VII.—§ 9. Prepositions and Idioms.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VIII SOME FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS — VIII.—§ 1. Why is the Native Language learnt so well? — VIII.—§ 2. Natural Ability and Sex. — VIII.—§ 3. Mother-tongue and Other Tongue. — VIII.—§ 4. Playing at Language. — VIII.—§ 5. Secret Languages. — VIII.—§ 6. Onomatopœia. — VIII.—§ 7. Word-inventions. — VIII.—§ 8. ‘Mamma’ and ‘Papa.’
  10. 10.CHAPTER IX THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILD ON LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT — IX.—§ 1. Conflicting Views. — IX.—§ 2. Meringer. Analogy. — IX.—§ 3. Herzog’s Theory of Sound Changes. — IX.—§ 4. Gradual Shiftings. — IX.—§ 5. Leaps. — IX.—§ 6. Assimilations, etc. — IX.—§ 7. Stump-words.
  11. 11.CHAPTER X THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILD— continued — X.—§ 1. Confusion of Words. — X.—§ 2. Metanalysis. — X.—§ 3. Shiftings of Meanings. — X.—§ 4. Differentiations. — X.—§ 5. Summary. — X.—§ 6. Indirect Influence. — X.—§ 7. New Languages.
  12. 12.BOOK III THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE WORLD — CHAPTER XI THE FOREIGNER — XI.—§ 1. The Substratum Theory. — XI.—§ 2. French u and Spanish h . — XI.—§ 3. Gothonic and Keltic. — XI.—§ 4. Etruscan and Indian Consonants. — XI.—§ 5. Gothonic Sound-shift. — XI.—§ 6. Natural and Specific Changes. — XI.—§ 7. Power of Substratum. — XI.—§ 8. Types of Race-mixture. — XI.—§ 9. Summary. — XI.—§ 10. General Theory of Loan-words. — XI.—§ 11. Classes of Loan-words. — XI.—§ 12. Influence on Grammar. — XI.—§ 13. Translation-loans.
  13. 13.CHAPTER XII PIDGIN AND CONGENERS — XII.—§ 1. Beach-la-Mar. — XII.—§ 2. Grammar. — XII.—§ 3. Sounds. — XII.—§ 4. Pidgin. — XII.—§ 5. Grammar, etc. — XII.—§ 6. General Theory. — XII.—§ 7. Mauritius Creole. — XII.—§ 8. Chinook Jargon. — XII.—§ 9. Chinook continued. — XII.—§ 10. Makeshift Languages. — XII.—§ 11. Romanic Languages.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XIII THE WOMAN — XIII.—§ 1. Women’s Languages. — XIII.—§ 2. Tabu. — XIII.—§ 3. Competing Languages. — XIII.—§ 4. Sanskrit Drama. — XIII.—§ 5. Conservatism. — XIII.—§ 6. Phonetics and Grammar. — XIII.—§ 7. Choice of Words. — XIII.—§ 8. Vocabulary. — XIII.—§ 9. Adverbs. — XIII.—§ 10. Periods. — XIII.—§ 11. General Characteristics.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XIV CAUSES OF CHANGE — XIV.—§ 1. Anatomy. — XIV.—§ 2. Geography. — XIV.—§ 3. National Psychology. — XIV.—§ 4. Speed of Utterance. — XIV.—§ 5. Periods of Rapid Change. — XIV.—§ 6. The Ease Theory. — XIV.—§ 7. Sounds in Connected Speech. — XIV.—§ 8. Extreme Weakenings. — XIV.—§ 9. The Principle of Value. — XIV.—§ 10. Application to Case System, etc. — XIV.—§ 11. Stress Phenomena. — XIV.—§ 12. Non-phonetic Changes.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XV CAUSES OF CHANGE— continued — XV.—§ 1. Emotional Exaggerations. — XV.—§ 2. Euphony. — XV.—§ 3. Organic Influences. — XV.—§ 4. Lapses and Blendings. — XV.—§ 5. Latitude of Correctness. — XV.—§ 6. Equidistant and Convergent Changes. — XV.—§ 7. Homophones. — XV.—§ 8. Significative Sounds preserved. — XV.—§ 9. Divergent Changes and Analogy. — XV.—§ 10. Extension of Sound Laws. — XV.—§ 11. Spreading of Sound Change. — XV.—§ 12. Reaction. — XV.—§ 13. Sound Laws and Etymological Science. — XV.—§ 14. Conclusion.
  17. 17.BOOK IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE — CHAPTER XVI ETYMOLOGY — XVI.—§ 1. Achievements. — XVI.—§ 2. Doubtful Cases. — XVI.—§ 3. Facts, not Fancies. — XVI.—§ 4. Hope. — XVI.—§ 5. Requirements. — XVI.—§ 6. Blendings. — XVI.—§ 7. Echo-words. — XVI.—§ 8. Some Conjunctions. — XVI.—§ 9. Object of Etymology. — XVI.—§ 10. Reconstruction.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XVII PROGRESS OR DECAY? — XVII.—§ 1. Linguistic Estimation. — XVII.—§ 2. Degeneration? — XVII.—§ 3. Appreciation of Modern Tongues. — XVII.—§ 4. The Scientific Attitude. — XVII.—§ 5. Final Answer. — XVII.—§ 6. Sounds. — XVII.—§ 7. Shortenings. — XVII.—§ 8. Objections. Result. — XVII.—§ 9. Verbal Forms. — XVII.—§ 10. Synthesis and Analysis. — XVII.—§ 11. Verbal Concord.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII PROGRESS — XVIII.—§ 1. Nominal Forms. — XVIII.—§ 2. Irregularities Original. — XVIII.—§ 3. Syntax. — XVIII.—§ 4. Objections. — XVIII.—§ 5. Word Order. — XVIII.—§ 6. Gender. — XVIII.—§ 7. Nominal Concord. — XVIII.—§ 8. The English Genitive. — XVIII.—§ 9. Bantu Concord. — XVIII.—§ 10. Word Order Again. — XVIII.—§ 11. Compromises. — XVIII.—§ 12. Order Beneficial? — XVIII.—§ 13. Word Order and Simplification. — XVIII.—§ 14. Summary.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIX ORIGIN OF GRAMMATICAL ELEMENTS — XIX.—§ 1. The Old Theory. — XIX.—§ 2. Roots. — XIX.—§ 3. Structure of Chinese. — XIX.—§ 4. History of Chinese. — XIX.—§ 5. Recent Investigations. — XIX.—§ 6. Roots Again. — XIX.—§ 7. The Agglutination Theory. — XIX.—§ 8. Coalescence. — XIX.—§ 9. Flexional Endings. — XIX.—§ 10. Validity of the Theory. — XIX.—§ 11. Irregularity Original. — XIX.—§ 12. Coalescence Theory dropped. — XIX.—§ 13. Secretion. — XIX.—§ 14. Extension of Suffixes. — XIX.—§ 15. Tainting of Suffixes. — XIX.—§ 16. The Classifying Instinct. — XIX.—§ 17. Character of Suffixes. — XIX.—§ 18. Brugmann’s Theory of Gender. — XIX.—§ 19. Final Considerations.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XX SOUND SYMBOLISM — XX.—§ 1. Sound and Sense. — XX.—§ 2. Instinctive Feeling. — XX.—§ 3. Direct Imitation. — XX.—§ 4. Originator of the Sound. — XX.—§ 5. Movement. — XX.—§ 6. Things and Appearances. — XX.—§ 7. States of Mind. — XX.—§ 8. Size and Distance. — XX.—§ 9. Length and Strength of Words and Sounds. — XX.—§ 10. General Considerations. — XX.—§ 11. Importance of Suggestiveness. — XX.—§ 12. Ancient and Modern Times.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XXI THE ORIGIN OF SPEECH — XXI.—§ 1. Introduction. — XXI.—§ 2. Former Theories. — XXI.—§ 3. Method. — XXI.—§ 4. Sounds. — XXI.—§ 5. Grammar. — XXI.—§ 6. Units. — XXI.—§ 7. Irregularities. — XXI.—§ 8. Savage Tribes. — XXI.—§ 9. Law of Development. — XXI.—§ 10. Vocabulary. — XXI.—§ 11. Poetry and Prose. — XXI.—§ 12. Emotional Songs. — XXI.—§ 13. Primitive Singing. — XXI.—§ 14. Approach to Language. — XXI.—§ 15. The Earliest Sentences. — XXI.—§ 16. Conclusion.
  23. 23.INDEX
  24. 24.FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note

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