| Edward Sapir (1884–1939). Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. 1921. |
Subject Index |
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| Sahaptin languages (N. Amer.), 220 |
| Salinan (S. W. California), 150, 155 |
| Sanskrit (India), 54, 75, 82, 151, 154, 175, 200, 207, 209, 210 |
| Sarcee Indians, 228 |
| Saxon, Low, 224; Old, 175; Upper, 225 |
| Scandinavian, 224. See Danish; Icelandic; Swedish. |
| Scandinavians, 224 |
| Scotch, 224, 226 |
| Scotch, Lowland, 188 |
| Semitic languages, 61, 68, 76, 134, 151, 219, 228 |
| Sentence, 33, 36–38; binding words into, methods of, 115–117; stress in, influence of, 118, 119; word-order in, 117, 118 |
| Sequence. See Order of words. |
| Shakespeare, art of, 238, 240; English of, 188, 189, 191 |
| Shasta (N. California), 220 |
| Shilh (Morocco), 77, 81 |
| Shilluk (Nile headwaters), 84, 150, 154, 155 |
| Siamese, 55, 66, 70, 207 |
| Singing, 50 |
| Siouan languages (N. Amer.), 76 |
| Sioux (Dakota), 29, 76, 95, 150 |
| Slavic languages, 212 |
| Slavs, 225 |
| Somali (E. Africa), 77, 80, 81 |
| Soudanese languages, 84, 154, 155, 163 |
| Sound-imitative words, 4, 5, 6, 80 |
| Sounds of speech, 24; adjustments involved in, muscular, 46; adjustments involved in certain, inhibition of, 46, 47; basic importance of, 43; classification of, 54, 55; combinations of, 56; conditioned appearance of, 56, 57; dynamics of, 55, 56; illusory feelings in regard to, 43–45; “inner” or “ideal” system of, 57, 58; place in phonetic pattern of, 194–196; production of, 47–54; values of, psychological, 56–58; variability of, 45, 46 |
| Spanish, 137 |
| Speech. See Language. |
| Spirants, 52 |
| Splitting of sounds, 193, 195 |
| Stem, 26 |
| Stock, linguistic, 163–165, 218, 221 |
| Stopped consonants (or stops), 52 |
| Stress. See Accent. |
| Structure, linguistic, 127–156; conservatism of, 200; differences of, 127, 128; intuitional forms of, 153, 154 |
| Structure, linguistic, types of: classification of, by character of concepts, 143–147, by degree of fusion, 136–143, by degree of synthesis, 135, 136, by formal processes, 133–135, from threefold standpoint, 147–149, 154, into “formal” and “formless,” 132, 133; classifying, difficulties in, 129–132, 149; examples of, 149–151; mixed, 148; reality of, 128, 129, 149, 152, 153; validity of conceptual, historical test of, 152–156 |
| Style, 38, 216, 242–244 |
| Subject, 92, 98. See Personal relations. |
| Subject of discourse, 37, 126 |
| Suffixes, 26, 64 |
| Suffixing, 61, 70, 71–75 |
| Suffixing languages, 134, 135 |
| Survivals, morphological, 149, 152, 202, 218, 219 |
| Swedish, 55, 110, 175 |
| Swinburne, 238, 240 |
| Swiss, French, 225 |
| Syllabifying, 56 |
| Symbolic languages, 133, 134, 147, 150, 151 |
| Symbolic processes, 134, 138, 139, 140 |
| Symbolic-fusional, 151 |
| Symbolic-isolating, 148 |
| Symons, 245 |
| Syntactic adhesions, 117, 118 |
| Syntactic relations, primary methods of expressing, 119, 120; transfer of values in, 120. See Concepts, relational; Concord; Order, word; Personal relations; Sentence. |
| Synthetic tendency, 69, 135, 136, 137, 148, 150, 151, 154 |
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