The origins of language -- The sound mechanisms -- The phonetic system and its mutations -- The phonetic word and verbal images -- Words and morphemes -- Grammatical categories -- Different kinds of words -- Affective language -- Morphological mutations -- The nature and extent of vocabularies -- How the meaning of words is modified -- How the terms that express ideas are changed -- Language and languages -- Dialects and specialized languages -- Standard or common languages -- The mutual influence of languages -- The relationship between languages and the comparative method -- Origin and development of writing -- The written language and its spelling -- The progress of language -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- index
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Facsim. of ed. published: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1925
