Problems in General Linguistics (Miami Linguistic, No. 8)

ContentsI......Page 2
Foreword......Page 4
Translator's Note......Page 6
Publisher's Note......Page 7
Changes in Linguistics......Page 8
ONE Recent Trends in General Linguistics......Page 10
TWO A Look at the Developmentof Linguistics......Page 24
THREE Saussure After Half a Century......Page 38
COIllIllunication......Page 50
FOUR The Nature of the Linguistic Sign......Page 52
FIVE Animal Communication and Human Language......Page 58
SIX Categories of Thought and Language......Page 64
SEVEN Remarks on the Function of Languagein Freudian Theory......Page 74
Structures and Analyses......Page 86
EIGHT "Structure" in Linguistics......Page 90
NINE The Classification of Languages......Page 96
TEN The Levels of Linguistic Analysis......Page 112
ELEVEN The Sublogical System of Prepositionsin Latin......Page 124
TWELVE Toward an Analysis of Case Functions:the Latin Genitive......Page 132
Man and Language......Page 140
EIGHTEEN Relationships of Person in the Verb......Page 142
NINETEEN The Correlations of Tensein the French Verb......Page 152
TWENTY The Nature of Pronouns......Page 164
TWENTY-ONE Subjectivity in Language......Page 170
TWENTY-TWO Analytical Philosophy and Language......Page 180
TWENTY-THREE Delocutive Verbs......Page 188
Lexicon and Culture......Page 196
TWENTY-FOUR Semantic Prol)lems in Reconstruction......Page 197
TWENTY-FIVE Euphemisms Ancient and Modern......Page 215
TWENTY-SIX Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary......Page 221
TWENTY-SEVEN The Notion of "Rhythm" in its Linguistic Expression......Page 231
TWENTY-EIGHT Civilization: A Contribution to the History of the Word......Page 239
Notes......Page 247
Index......Page 265