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224 A BASIC COURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS<br />

conversational devices, 12 1-1 23<br />

def<strong>in</strong>ed, 69,70-72<br />

function words, 88,182<br />

lexical fields, 106<br />

l<strong>in</strong>guistic typology, 82-83<br />

loanwords, 134-1 35<br />

morphemes, 73-76,82<br />

morphological analysis, 76-78<br />

as sacred forms, 127-128<br />

slips of the tongue, 70<br />

vocabulary, 71<br />

Zipf’s Law, 79-82<br />

writ<strong>in</strong>g<br />

alphabetic system, 156<br />

alphabetic writ<strong>in</strong>g, 156-158<br />

cuneiform, 154-155<br />

direction of, 158-159<br />

hieroglyphic, 155-156<br />

ideographs, 154<br />

logographs, 154<br />

paradigm shift, 157<br />

pictography, 153-156, 157<br />

sound representation, transition to,<br />

156-157<br />

X<br />

X-Bar Theory, 96<br />

Y<br />

Yo-He-Ho theory, 25<br />

Z<br />

Zamenhof, L.L., 84<br />

Zipf’s Law<br />

connotation, 103<br />

conversational devices, 122<br />

def<strong>in</strong>ed, 189<br />

described, 12<br />

and Pr<strong>in</strong>ciple of Economic Change, 39-<br />

40<br />

repetitions, 90<br />

sentence-abbreviat<strong>in</strong>g tendency, 15-1 6<br />

sound representation <strong>in</strong> writ<strong>in</strong>g, 156-<br />

157<br />

words, 79-82

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