ABSTRACT
A. Adequacy criterion: 133, 231 Allomorph: 84 American Anthropological Association
(AAA): 26 American Bible Association: 27 American Ethnological Society: 25, 26 American Indian languages
(see also under Languages): 41, 42, 45, 50, 224, 225 — study of ~: 4, 18, 18, 18, 19 passim, 29
American linguistics: 22 et passim — historiography of ~: x passim (and throughout the book)
American Oriental Society: 25 American Philosophical Society
(Philadelphia): 6n, 23, 24, 225 Americanist liguistics: 8, 18
— history of: 16 passim Anthropological linguistics: 18, 47, 53 Anthropology: 40, 62, 77, 193 Applied Linguistics: 3, 78 Arabic studies: 7 Arbitrariness of the sign: 63, 68 Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Chomsky):
10, 107, 107, 115, 137, 141, 175, 186, 195
Autonomous syntax: 126
B. Baffin Island: 76 Base form: 227 Behaviorist psychology: 65, 66, 79 Bilingualism: 255n, 263, 267, 272
Bildung: 43 Black English: 256, 268, 270 Bloomfieldian linguistics
(see also under Language [Bloomfield] and Descriptive linguistics): 81, 83, 88, 104, 135, 163, 173, 244, 285
Brazilian languages: 18 Bureau of American Ethnology
(Washington, D.C.): 25
C. Cartesian Linguistics (Chomsky): 2, 146,
239, 257, 284, 285, 294 Castillian grammar: 18 Categories, grammatical
(see also Linguistic categories): 50 Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS): 112,
113 Child language: 267n Classification of languages
(see also Language typology): 29n, 44, 45
Climate of opinion (Becker): 297 Cognitive linguistics: 125 Colleges (in North America): —Gratz (Philadelphia): 220 —Dropsie (Philadelphia): 220 Colour perception: 53 Comparative-historical linguistics
(see also Historical linguistics): 16, 28, 152, 210
‘competence’ (vs ‘performance’): 105, 107, 138, 139, 141
Connotation: 82 ‘context of situation’ (Firth): 114
Contextualization: 82 Cours de linguistique générale (Saussure): 8, 9,
10, 63 passim, 77n, 130, 131, 134, 139, 141, 144, 145, 146, 292, 295
—English translation of ~: 10, 131 Course in Modern Linguistics, A (Hockett):
viii, 82n, 82, 158n
D. Data orientation (vs Theory orientation):
73 Déduction: 105 Deep grammar, see Surface grammar ‘deep’
vs ‘surface’ structure: 94, 108, 147 Denotation: 82 Derivational constraints: 119 Descriptive linguistics: x, 21, 29, 66, 75,
83, 89, 92, 105, 131, 163, 180, 218, 220, 225, 231, 235
Descriptive order: 231, 232n Dialectology: 254, 258, 259, 264, 267, 271,
272 Dialect atlasses: —of France: 265n —of Germany: 259 —of Switzerland: 259 —of the United States: 259 Distinctive feature(s): 81 Distinctiveness (same/different): 9, 73, 84,
88, 90, 104 Distribution: 84 ‘drag chain’ (Martinet): 283, 288
E. Empiricism: 105, 115, 154 Environmental approach: 43 ‘ethnography of speaking/communication’
(Hymes): 257 Ethnolinguistics: 42, 53 Explanation: 75 Extended Standard Theory (EST): 108,
109, 120, 121 External factors (in revolutions): 152, 155,
158, 185, 184, 244 Externalized language: 143, 144, 145
F.
