INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE -- PEEFACE. -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE. -- CHAPTER II. THE PHYSICAL BASIS OP LANGUAGE. -- 1. Unconsciousness of speech-movements. -- 2. Writing an imperfect analysis. -- 3. The vocal chords. -- 4. The velum. -- 5. Oral articulation -- 6. Oral noise-articulations. -- 7. Musical oral articulations. -- 8. Infinite variety of possible sounds. -- 9. Glides and mixtures of articulation. -- 11. Stress. -- 13. Duration. -- 14. Limitation of the articulations in each dialect. -- 15. Automatic variations. -- CHAPTER III. THE MENTAL BASIS OF LANGUAGE. -- 1. The place of language in our mental life. -- 2. Total experiences. -- 3. The analysis of total experiences. -- 4.The naming of objects. -- 5. The development of abstract words. -- 6. Psychologic composition of the word. -- 7. Grammatical categories. -- 8· Psychologic character of the linguistic forms. -- 9. Psychologic motives of utterance. -- 10. Interpretation of the linguistic phenomena. -- CHAPTER IV. THE FORMS OF LANGUAGE. -- 1. The inarticulate outcry. -- 2. Primary interjections. -- 3. Secondary interjections. -- 4. The arbitrary value of non-interjectioiial utterances. -- 5. The classifying nature of linguistic expression. -- 6. Expression of the three types of utterances. -- 7. The parts of utterances. -- 8. The word: phonetic character. -- 9. The word: semantic character. -- 10. Word-classes. -- 11. The sentence. -- CHAPTER V.MORPHOLOGY. -- 1. The significance of morphologic phenomena. -- 2. Morphologic classification by syntactic use (Parts of speech). -- 3. Classification by congruence. -- 4. Phonetic-semantic classes.

5. Classes on a partially phonetic basis. Still other -- 6. Difference between morphologic classification and non-linguistic association. -- 7. Classes by composition. -- 8. Derivation and inflection. -- 9. The semantic nature of inflection: the commonest categories. -- 10. The semantic nature of derivation. -- 11. The phonetic character of the morphologic processes. -- 12. Word-composition: semantic value. -- 13. -Word-composition not a phonetic process. It -- 14. Simple word: compound: phrase. -- CHAPTER VI. SYNTAX. -- 1. The field of syntax. -- 2. The discursive relations. -- 3. The emotional relations. -- 4. Material relations. -- 5. Syntactic categories. -- 6. The expression of syntactic relations: modulation in the sentence. -- 7. Cross-referring constructions. -- 8. Congruence. -- 9. Government. -- 10. Word-order. -- 11. Set phrases : the transition from syntax to style. -- 12. The complex sentence. -- CHAPTER VII. INTERNAL CHANGE IN LANGUAGE. -- 1. Language constantly changing. -- 2. Causes of the instability of language. -- 3. Change in articulation. -- 4. Analogic change. -- 5. Semantic change. -- 6. The ultimate conditions of change in language. -- CHAPTER VIII. EXTERNAL CHANGE OF LANGUAGES. -- 1. Language never uniform. -- 2. Increase of uniformity. -- 3. Decrease of uniformity does not offset the increase. -- 4. Inferences from historic conditions. -- 5. The process of differentiation. -- 6. Deduction of internal history from related forms. -- 7. Interaction of dialects and -- 8. Standard languages. -- CHAPTER IX. THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGES. -- 1. The purpose of foreign-language instruction. -- 2. Character of the instruction. -- 3. Age of the pupil. -- 5. Drill in pronunciation. -- 6. Method of presenting semantic material. -- 7. Grammatical information. -- 8. Texts. -- 9. References. -- CHAPTER X. THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE.

1, The origin of linguistic science. -- 2. How to study linguistics. -- 3. Relation of linguistics to other sciences, -- INDICES.