N. S. Trubetzkoy
by Liberman, Anatoly; Trubetskoi, Nikolai SergeevichFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"This collection of Trubetzkoy's articles and letters from widely scattered sources is an important and welcome contribution to both the history of linguistics and the advancement of current knowledge."--Victor Friedman, University of Chicago
Author Biography
N. S. Trubetzkoy, one of the most fascinating linguists of this century, was a pioneer in structural linguistics and one of the founders of the Prague School Anatoly Liberman is Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Minnesota Marvin H. Taylor Jr. is Instructor in Scandinavian Language, Linguistics, and Literature at the University of Bochum, Germany
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| A Note on Transcription | p. xiii |
| Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Phonological Systems Considered in Themselves and in Relation to General Language Structure | p. 3 |
| Phonology versus Phonetics | p. 6 |
| The Systematic Phonological Representation of Languages | p. 11 |
| A Theory of Phonological Oppositions | p. 14 |
| On a New Critique of the Concept of the Phoneme | p. 22 |
| Phonology and Linguistic Geography | p. 39 |
| Quantity as a Phonological Problem | p. 44 |
| The Phonological Basis of Quantity in Various Languages | p. 50 |
| How Should the Sound System of an Artificial International Language Be Structured? | p. 60 |
| On Morphonology | p. 72 |
| Thoughts on Morphonology | p. 75 |
| The Relation between the Modifier, the Modified, and the Definite | p. 78 |
| The Problem of Genetic Relations among the Great Language Families | p. 85 |
| Thoughts on the Indo-European Problem | p. 87 |
| Thoughts on the Latin a-Subjunctive | p. 99 |
| The Pronunciation of Greek x in the Ninth Century A.D. | p. 104 |
| The Phonetic Evolution of Russian and the Disintegration of the Common Russian Linguistic Unity | p. 109 |
| On the Chronology of Some Common Slavic Sound Changes | p. 129 |
| On the Original Value of the Common Slavic Accents | p. 141 |
| On the Proto-Slavic Accents | p. 152 |
| On the Development of the Gutturals in the Slavic Languages | p. 157 |
| Remarks on Some Iranian Words Borrowed by the North Caucasian Languages | p. 165 |
| On the Prehistory of the East Caucasian Languages | p. 170 |
| The Universal Adoption of the Roman Alphabet: Peoples of the Caucasus | p. 175 |
| The Phonological System of Mordvin Compared with That of Russian | p. 178 |
| From Trubetzkoy's Letters to Roman Jakobson | |
| Some Considerations on the History of Language | p. 183 |
| General Phonology | p. 186 |
| Prosody | p. 194 |
| Historical Phonology | p. 207 |
| An Overview of the History of the Slavic Languages | p. 211 |
| Prehistory of Slavic Phonetics: An Overview | p. 213 |
| An Overview of the Phonetic History of Russian | p. 214 |
| Slavic (and Baltic) Accentuation and Metrics | p. 218 |
| Morphology | p. 234 |
| The Reception of Phonology | p. 239 |
| Contemporary Linguistics: Stray Thoughts on Old and Contemporary Scholars | p. 253 |
| Notes | p. 259 |
| Bibliography | p. 281 |
| Indexes | p. 295 |
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