This book presents the fundamentals of Linguistics and the historical survey of Languages. It focuses mainly on the study and use of language and Languages of the world, the phonetic structure and change, syntax, Morphology, written records, Dialect Geography, Fluctuation in the Frequency of Forms, Dialect, Applications and Outlook, etc.
Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of Language In accordance with this twofold aim, Ihave limited myself to a presentation of the accepted doctrine, not even avoiding well-used standard examples. In a few places I have spoken of views that cannot claim more than probability, of hypotheses, and of problems yet to be solved, but I have done this explicitly and only be cause I think it fitting to indicate the direction in which our study is at present tending. Consequently the matter here presented is by no means my own, but rather the property of all students of language. It will be found in fuller form and with bibliographic support in the books mentioned in Chapter Ten, and these books I may there fore name as my more immediate It will be apparent, especially, that I depend for my psychology, general and linguistic, entirely on Wundt; I can only hope that I have not misrepresented his doctrine. The day is past when students of mental sciences could draw on their own fancy or on 'popular psychology' for their views of mental occurrence. L. B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Leonard Bloomfield's "Language" (1933) is one of the most important books on linguistics and it is also one of the most frequently quoted. It is very unusual that a scientific book that has been on the market for 67 years has not become outdated. Unbelievably enough, it has never been translated into German, although Bloomfield spoke German like his mother-tongue. His family came from Austria an he specialized in Germanic linguistics. This edition of, Language" aims to fill this gap and furthermore tries to reflect Bloomfield's ideas in the light of modem linguistics. Therefore it is not a mere translation but a commentated reader, of Bloomfield's, Language" and a scientific publication in its own right. Leonard Bloomfields Buch "Language" (1933) zählt zu den Klassikern der Sprachwissenschaft, es ist eines der meistzitierten Bücher auf diesem Gebiet. Es kommt nicht oft vor, dass ein geisteswissenschaftliches Werk im siebenten Jahrzehnt nach seinem Erscheinen kaum veraltet ist. Eigenartigerweise existierte bislang keine deutsche Übersetzung, und das, obwohl Bloomfield, der altösterreichischer Herkunft war und Deutsch wie seine Muttersprache beherrschte, als ausgebildeter Germanist das Deutsche in seinem Werk besonders ausführlich behandelt. Diese Lücke soll diese deutsche Erstausgabe schließen, wobei im Kommentar ausführlich auf die vergangenen 66 Jahre Forschungsgeschichte eingegangen wird. Dadurch geht diese Ausgabe aber auch über eine reine Übersetzung hinaus erhält den Charakter einer eigenständigen wissenschaftlichen. Publikation