Index creoles 123-4
Czech language 25
Harris, Zellig 37
historical linguistics 13 history 3-14
Algonquian languages definitions see semantics Hockett, Charles 62
34-5
alphabet 70
American linguistics native 28, 30-5
Derrida, Jacques 27
Humboldt, Wilhelm 12
descriptivism 141-2
diachronic approach 22-3 India 4-5
Dixon, Bob 51
Inda-European family 96
structuralism in 36-7 duality of patterning 72 Americanisms 92 Dyirbal language 51-2 Jakobson, Roman Ancient Greece 7, 53-5 Dyscolus, Apollonius 7 23, 25-7 animals, language 61, 73 dysphasia 143 apes 163, 164, 169 Kristeva, Julia 27 aphasia 143 English Kruszewski, Mikolai 14 Aristotle 6 grammar 10 Astadhayayi, the 4-5 Old 87 Lacan, Jacques 27 Athapaskan people 28 origins 97 Lakoff, Georg 51-2 atomistic approach 18 standard 138-9 Langsacker, Ronald 127
European languages 9 Language (Bloomfield)
Barthes, Roland 27
Basque 137
female speech 105
Bickerton, Derek 161-4 Foucault, Michel 27
Bloom, Paul 160
French grammar 11
34-6
Language (Sapir) 29-31
language acquisition 115-20
Bloomfield, Leonard 26, functional approach 43-9 built-in faculty 124
34-5
bio-semiotics 26
Boas, Franz 28-9
Bopp, Franz 13
brain injury 143-51
Broca's aphasia 143-4
Burling, Robins 167
creating 121-4
Gabelentz, Georg de 14 defined 56
gender80
systems 35, 51-2
disordered 143-51
Humboldt 12
see also sex differences media 69-71
in language; sexism natural 57-9
generative grammar
38-42
origins 83-99, 92-3,
155-69
catastrophic theory 161 genetic abnormalities
Chaucer, Geoffrey 86
148, 154
chimpanzees see apes German 93-5
planning 136-8
political influence 136
purpose 170
Germanic languages 95 variation in 101-8
Chomsky, Noam
43-9
functional approach gradualist theory 160,
162
generative grammar grammar 77-83
38-42
and Panini 5
reviews Skinner 116
transformational grammar 11, 40
universal grammar
125-35
Coates, Jennifer 103
cognitive linguistics
50, 165
and the brain 144
English 10
French 11
Greek 7, 8-10
Latin 8
see also universal grammar
Greece 6-7
see also Ancient
Greece see also linguistics languages animals 61, 73
changes in 84-92
common features 62-7
Germanic 95
native American 28,
30-5
new 59
number of 59
laryngeals 15
Latin grammar 8
25
14
consonants, acquisition Greek and Latin 7, 8-10 and Greek 7, 8-10
Grice, Paul 113-14
Levi-Strauss, Claude 27
Courtenay, Jan Baudouin Grimm, Jakob 13
Halliday, Michael 48
linguistic engineering 136-8
nativism 129
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