Language and Languages: An Introduction to Linguistics

16th century accent acoustic affixes analogy Antoine Meillet articulation become century A.D. character Chinese classification common compound consonants context corresponding derived dialects differentiation diphthongs distinct Dutch Engl English exist expression fact Finno-Ugric French Germ glottis Goth guage High German idioms incremental Indo Indo-European Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian influence instance interpretation isoglosses isolated kentum language large number Latin latter less lexical linguistic literary Low German meaning modern modified morphological nasal nonradical element noun onomatopoeias original palate phonetic phonetic change phonetic laws pitch plural Polysemy Primitive produced pronunciation psychological radical reference referential aspect relationship result Sanskrit satem semantic semantic change semanto-phonetic Semitic sentence single word Slavonic sonant sonority sound combination speaker speaking speech sound spoken stress structure suffix syllable symbol syntactical systematic territory tion Tocharian tongue Turkic varieties various verb vocabulary vocal vowel Vulgar Latin Zeitschrift