relativity 30
Proto-Inda-European standard English 138-9
linguistics general 14
(PIE) 15, 96-9
protolanguage 164
stimulus-freedom 67
Strawson, Peter 112
historical 13
structuralism 18-21
history of 3-14
Rask, Rasmus 13
and language 26, 35-7
location, expressing 78 relevance in language subject of sentence 6
113
subjunctive 100
male speech 104
"respectively" sentences Swedish 93-5
mathematics 38
maxims 113
133-5
Richie, Robert 42
Swift, Jonathan 84
synchronic approach 22
media for language 69-71 Romans, the 8
Syntactic Structures 38
metaphor 55, 166
Morris, Charles 26, 111
rules 4-5, 153
systemic correspondence in language acquisition 93-4
Moscow Linguistic Circle
27
native American languages 28, 30-5
117-18
universal grammar
127-35
see also maxims
Russell, Bertrand 112
Systemic Functional
Linguistics 48
tense 79
acquisition 117-18
natural language 57-9,
Thrax, Dionysius 7
123
Sapir, Edward 29
time
Navaho language 31-3 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis concept of 55 negation 118 30-1, 50 see also tense neurolinguistics 146-7 Saussure, Ferdinand de transformational grammar Nicaraguan Sign 15-22 11, 40-2
Language 76
Old English 87
general linguistics
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai 23
16-17
Saussurean paradox 100 universal grammar Sebeok, Thomas 26 125-35
Panini 4
parts of speech 7
secondary media 70-1 Uralic languages 98
semantics 108, 109-10,
patterning in language 72 111
Peirce, C.S. 26, 111
semiotics 26-7
variation in language
101-8
Peters, Stanley 42
Petrograd Society 27
phonemes 71-3
sex differences in
Verbal Behavior 116
language 80, 102-5 vowel acquisition 25
sexism 140-1
phonology 23-5
Piaget, Jean 135
pidgin 122, 162-4
PIE see Proto-Inda-
Shakespeare, William 85 Wernicke's aphasia 145
sign language 69, 74-6 Whorl, Benjamin Lee 30-1
American 82
Williams syndrome 150-1
English 74-6
word order 77-8
European
Nicaraguan 76
Pinker, Steven 152-3, 160 signs see semiotics
Words and Rules 152
words, new 62
plurals 119, 149
Skinner, B.F. 116
political influences 136 socio-linguistics 102
writing invention 84
Port-Royal Circle 11
pragmatics 108, 111-14
sound and language 14, as a medium 70
16, 18-21, 23-5
Prague Circle, the 23, 27 pattern 16 predicate of sentence 6 units 71-3 prescriptivism 91 Spanish and structuralism primary media 69 20-1 Principles of Phonology Specific Language
23
Priscian 8-9
Impairment 148-9, 154
speech 69
Proto-Germanic 94-7
male vs. female 104-5 parts of 7
175
