A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics (Studies in Linguistic ...

eality, and language
color terminology, 141-146
metaphor, 147-153
specialized vocabularies, 140-146
Whorfian Hypothesis, 137, 138-140
writing, 153-158
reconstruction techniques
comparative analysis, 3 1-33
core vocabularies, 35-39
described, 31-35
language famihes, 34-35
Nostratic, 34-35
original tongue of humanity, 34-35
predictive power, 34
sound shifts, 3 1-32
sound symbolism, 38-39
time depth, 35-38
recursiveness, 96
redundant, 59
referent, 100-101,186
referential function, 187
referential messages, 127
regional dialects, 16
registers, 16-17, 187
reification, 152
Renfrew, C., 35
repair, 123,187
rhetoric, 11 1
rhyme, 6 1
Richards, I.A., 147
rising diphthong, 61
Romance languages
comparative analysis, 3 1-32
grammatical changes, 40-41
time depth, 38
root metaphors, 148-149
root morpheme, 73,187
Rosch, Eleanor, 146
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 27
rule-making principles, 5-6
S
Sanskrit
cognates, comparisons of, 3 1
INDEX 221
grammar compilation, 2
Sapir, Edward, 5,21,71-72,82,97,138
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. See Whorfian
Hypothesis
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 4-5,34,55
Schlegel, Friedrich, 3
Schleyer, Johann Martin, 84
Schmandt-Besserat, D., 153
science, and metaphor, 152-153
science of language. See linguistics
Searle, John R., 101
secondary stress, 59
segmentation, 73-74,187
semantic features, 102,103-106
semanticity, 43
semantics, 13,99, 187
semiconsonant glide, 61
semivowel glide, 61
sentences
ambiguous, 90-9 1
basic syntactic structure, 85-86
clustering structure, 86-88
defined, 187
described, 85
differential communicative effects, 91
as discourse units, 123
grammar. See grammar
hierarchical structure, 86-88
and humor, 92-94
lexicon, 94-95
word order, 88-89
Shevoroshkin, V., 38
sibilant, 5
signs, 8,100-101,187
skull-larynx configurations, 29-30
slang, 129,187
slips of the tongue, 64,70, 187
social dialects, 16,128-129
sociolect, 128-129,187
sociolinguistics, 6
sonorants, 52, 187
sound laws
introduction of, 4
voiced consonants, 39