TY - BOOK AU - Jakobson,Roman AU - Waugh,Linda R. AU - Monville-Burston,Monique TI - On language /Roman Jakobson ; edited by Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston AV - P121 .O553 1990 PY - 1990/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Linguistics KW - Language and languages N1 - 1 (pages 541-613) and indexes; Part I: The science of language: general overviews --; Current issues of general linguistics --; Efforts toward a means-ends model of language in interwar continental linguistics --; My favorite topics --; Part II: The function and structure of language: some fundamental concepts --; The speech event and the functions of language --; Langue and parole: code and messages --; Parts and wholes in language --; Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances --; The concept of Mark (with Krystyna Pomorska) --; Part III: Dimensions of language: invariants and variants across time and space --; Typological studies and their contribution to historical comparative linguistics --; Implications of language universals for linguistics --; The time factor in language (with Krystyna Pomorska) --; The space factor in language (with Krystyna Pomorska) --; Principles of historical phonology --; On the theory of phonological affinities between languages --; Part IV: The sound system of language --; The concept of phoneme --; The concept of the distinctive feature (withe C Gunnar Fant and Morris Halle) --; Quest for the ultimate constituents (with Linda R Waugh) --; The sound laws of child language and their place in general phonology --; Why "mama" and "papa"? --; Part V: Meaning in language: grammatical and lexical --; Some questions of meaning --; Boas' view of grammatical meaning --; Contribution to the general theory of case --; Shifters and verbal categories --; Part Virgin Islands: Sound and meaning in language: their interrelations --; The Phonemic and grammatical aspects of language in their interrelations --; Quest for the essence of language --; The spell of the speech sound (with Linda R Waugh) --; Part Virgin IslandsI: The place of language: interdisciplinary perspectives --; Linguistics in relations to other sciences --; Linguistics and communication theory --; Brain and language; 2 ER -