| Edward Sapir (1884–1939). Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. 1921. |
Subject Index |
A | | | | |
| Abbreviation of stem, 26 |
| Accent, stress, 26, 36, 48, 55, 61, 64; as grammatical process, 82, 83; importance of, 118, 119, 120; metrical value of, 244, 245, 246 |
| “Accent,” 44 |
| “Adams’s apple,” 48 |
| Adjective, 123, 124, 125 |
| Affixation, 26, 64, 70–76 |
| Affixing languages, 133, 134, 137 |
| African languages, pitch in, 55 |
| Agglutination, 140–143 |
| Agglutinative languages, 130, 136–138, 139, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 155 |
| Agglutinative-fusional, 148, 150 |
| Agglutinative-isolating, 148, 150 |
| Algonkin languages (N. Amer.), 70, 74, 134, 151, 229, 244 |
| Alpine race, 223, 225 |
| Analogical leveling, 193, 197, 200–203 |
| Analytic tendency, 135, 136, 148, 150, 151, 154, 216, 217 |
| Angles, 224, 225 |
| Anglo-Saxon, 28, 175, 183, 185, 186–188, 191, 197, 198, 201 |
| Anglo-Saxon culture, 229; race, 222, 223, 224 |
| Annamite (S. E. Asia), 66, 150, 205 |
| Apache (N. Amer.), 71 |
| Arabic, 76, 77, 135, 151, 207 |
| Armenian, 163, 212 |
| Art, 236–240; language as, 233, 235, 240, 241, 246, 247; transferability of, 237, 238 |
| Articulation, ease of, 196; types of, drift toward, 194 |
| Articulations, laryngeal, 49, 50; manner of consonantal, 52, 53; nasal, 50, 51; oral, 51, 52; place of consonantal, 53, 54; vocalic, 52 |
| Aryan. See Indo-European. |
| Aspect, 114 |
| Association of concepts and speech elements, 38, 39 |
| Associations fundamental to speech, 10, 11 |
| Athabaskan languages (N. Amer.), 6, 71, 77, 83, 105, 209, 214, 219, 228, 229 |
| Athabaskans, cultures of, 228 |
| Attic dialect, 162 |
| Attribution, 101 |
| Auditory cycle in language, 17 |
| Australian culture, 221, 222 |
| Avestan, 175 |
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