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English Language Reader Introductory Essays and Exercises by Donald W. Lee, 1910-

Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Dodd, Mead & Company c.1964Description: 372 pSubject(s):
Contents:
Preface -- Foreword to the Student: Writing about Language -- PART I: -- Aspects of Language / Joshua Whatmough -- Toward a Definition of Language / Edward Sapir -- Characteristics of Language / Edward Sapir -- The Indo-European Language Family / Leonard Bloomfield -- The Indo-European Language Family / Arthur Garfield Kennedy -- The Finno-Ugric Language Family / Margaret Schlauch -- The Sinitic Languages / Edwin O. Reischauer and John K. Fairbank -- Foreign Language Needs / William Riley Parker -- Modern Foreign Languages in High School Curriculum / James B. Conant -- PART II: -- A Brief History of the English Language / Harold Whitehall -- The Spread of English / Arthur Garfield Kennedy -- Language and Race / Edward Sapir -- Dictionary / the Columbia Encyclopedia -- A Field Guide to Word Watching -- Specimen Dictionary Pages -- A Review of a Dictionary / Sumner Ives -- The What and the Way / Dwight L. Bolinger -- Intonation / Paul Roberts -- The Suprasegmental Phonemes / George P. Faust -- Towards the Definition of Word / James H. Sledd -- Another Handful of Etymologies -- An Introduction to Word Analysis / Samuel C. Monson -- Problems in Word Analysis / Lee C. Deighton -- Some More Etymologies -- One Indo-European Root / Mario Pei -- Amoebas in the Dictionary / Charlton Laird -- Degeneration and Elevation of Meaning / James B. Greenough and G.L. Kittredge -- Change of Meaning / Edgar H. Sturtevant -- Sources of the Vocabulary: Word Borrowing / Stuart Robertson and Frederic G. Cassidy -- Synonyms / Donald W. Lee -- Specimen Dictionary Synonymies -- Regional Variations / Albert H. Marckwardt -- The Work of the Eighteenth Century Grammarians / Albert S. Baugh -- What is Correct English Usage? / Robert C. Pooley -- Toward Reforming Grammar / Hugh Sykes Davies -- "Right" versus "Wrong" in Language and Levels of Usage / J.N. Hook and E.G. Mathews -- Revolution in Grammar / W. Nelson Francis -- Adjectives Defined and Classified / R.W. Pence -- Characteristics of Class 3 Words / Charles C. Fries -- Adjectives and Adverbs / James H. Sledd -- Definitions of Adjectives / Paul Roberts -- A Table of Phonological Symbols
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Preface -- Foreword to the Student: Writing about Language -- PART I: -- Aspects of Language / Joshua Whatmough -- Toward a Definition of Language / Edward Sapir -- Characteristics of Language / Edward Sapir -- The Indo-European Language Family / Leonard Bloomfield -- The Indo-European Language Family / Arthur Garfield Kennedy -- The Finno-Ugric Language Family / Margaret Schlauch -- The Sinitic Languages / Edwin O. Reischauer and John K. Fairbank -- Foreign Language Needs / William Riley Parker -- Modern Foreign Languages in High School Curriculum / James B. Conant -- PART II: -- A Brief History of the English Language / Harold Whitehall -- The Spread of English / Arthur Garfield Kennedy -- Language and Race / Edward Sapir -- Dictionary / the Columbia Encyclopedia -- A Field Guide to Word Watching -- Specimen Dictionary Pages -- A Review of a Dictionary / Sumner Ives -- The What and the Way / Dwight L. Bolinger -- Intonation / Paul Roberts -- The Suprasegmental Phonemes / George P. Faust -- Towards the Definition of Word / James H. Sledd -- Another Handful of Etymologies -- An Introduction to Word Analysis / Samuel C. Monson -- Problems in Word Analysis / Lee C. Deighton -- Some More Etymologies -- One Indo-European Root / Mario Pei -- Amoebas in the Dictionary / Charlton Laird -- Degeneration and Elevation of Meaning / James B. Greenough and G.L. Kittredge -- Change of Meaning / Edgar H. Sturtevant -- Sources of the Vocabulary: Word Borrowing / Stuart Robertson and Frederic G. Cassidy -- Synonyms / Donald W. Lee -- Specimen Dictionary Synonymies -- Regional Variations / Albert H. Marckwardt -- The Work of the Eighteenth Century Grammarians / Albert S. Baugh -- What is Correct English Usage? / Robert C. Pooley -- Toward Reforming Grammar / Hugh Sykes Davies -- "Right" versus "Wrong" in Language and Levels of Usage / J.N. Hook and E.G. Mathews -- Revolution in Grammar / W. Nelson Francis -- Adjectives Defined and Classified / R.W. Pence -- Characteristics of Class 3 Words / Charles C. Fries -- Adjectives and Adverbs / James H. Sledd -- Definitions of Adjectives / Paul Roberts -- A Table of Phonological Symbols

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