Author: Taraporewala, Irach Jehangir Sorabji [1884 - 1956]
Title: Elements of the Science of Language
Description: Calcutta, University of Calcutta Press, 1978. Fourth edition, half-cloth. 21x13cm, xxxiii,642 pp, Crude binder's blind half-cloth with original cover wraps bound-in.. 4 folding charts.. Minor rubbing. A stain to page-edges of pages 24 - 34. Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Psychology of Speech: Branches of Linguistic Studies; Language Types & Classification of Languages; Some Considerations of Syntactical Growth; Growth of Languages; The Intellectual Laws of Language: Analogy & Kindred Phenomena; Semantics or the Science of Meaning;The Production & Classifcation of Sounds; Phonetic Tendencies in Language and Phonetic Change; Form-Building & Word-Building; Linguistic Palaeontology; The Languages of India; The Indo-European Languages; The Various Language Families of the World; History of Linguistic Studies in India & the West.

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