| Edward Sapir (1884–1939). Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. 1921. |
Subject Index |
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| Paiute (N. Amer.), 31, 32, 36, 52, 53, 69, 70 |
| Palate, 48; action of soft, 51; articulations of, 53 |
| Pali (India), 207 |
| Papuan languages, 227 |
| Papuans, 227, 230 |
| Parts of speech, 123–125, 126 |
| Pattern, formal, 61, 63, 234, 242; phonetic, 57, 58, 187, 93–96, 99, 200, 206, 211, 214, 215, 220 |
| Persian, 163, 207 |
| Person, 114 |
| Personal relations, 91, 92, 93, 115 |
| Phonetic adaptation, 210, 211 |
| Phonetic diffusion, 211–215 |
| Phonetic law, basis of, 195, 196, 199, 200; direction of, 194, 195, 199; examples of, 186–193; influence of, on morphology, 203, 204; influence of morphology on, 196–199; regularity of, 193, 194; significance of, 186; spread of, slow, 190, 191. See Leveling, phonetic; Pattern, phonetic. |
| Phonetic processes, form caused by, differences of, 105, 106; parallel drifts in, 184–193, 197–199 |
| Pitch, grammatical use of, 83–85; metrical use of, 246; production of, 49; significant differences in, 55, 64 |
| Plains, Indians, gesture language of, 20 |
| “Plattdeutsch,” 224, 225 |
| Plurality: classification of concept of, variable, 110, 111, 112; a concrete relational category, 99, 100; a derivational or radical concept, 99; expression of, multiple, 38, 62. See Number. |
| Poles, 225 |
| Polynesian, 132, 150, 155, 227, 230 |
| Polynesians, 221, 222, 227, 230 |
| Polysynthetic languages, 130, 135, 146, 148, 150, 151 |
| Portuguese, 137 |
| Predicate, 37, 126 |
| Prefixes, 26, 64, 70, 71–75 |
| Prefixing languages, 134, 135 |
| Preposition, 125 |
| Psycho-physical, aspect of speech, 8, 9 |
| Pure-relational languages, 145, 147, 154, 155; complex, 145, 147, 150, 155; simple, 145, 147, 150 |
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