An introduction to general linguistics.

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1967.

English

xiii, 452 pages ; 24 cm.

0878401725

Contents. Preface. 1. Linguistics as a Scientific Study of Language. 2. The Study of Language as Sound. 3. Grammar as a Formal System. 4. The Development of Language Study in the West. 5. Traditional Grammar. 6. The Nineteenth Century: Historical and Comparative Linguistics. 7. Ferdinand de Saussure. 8. Edward Sapir. 9. Leonard Bloomfield. 10. J. R. Firth: Contextual Theory and Prosodic Phonology. 11. Louis Hjelmslev: Glossematics. 12. Noam Chomsky: Transformational Grammar and Linguistic Universals. Summary and Conclusions