Selected Writings in English and General Linguistics

Josef Vachek

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9789027930248
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110803853
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Josef Vachek’s Work in General and English Linguistics
• A Preliminary Remark
• A. GENERAL PHONOLOGY
• Phonemes and Phonological Units (1936)
• Can the Phoneme be defined in terms of time? (1937)
• The Non-Static Aspect of the Synchronically Studied Phonological System (1967)
• Notes on One Aspect of the Internal Structuration of the Phonological System (1967)
• On the Explanatory Power of the Functional Load of Phonemes (1969)
• On Some Basic Principles of ‘Classical’ Phonology (1964)
• B. OTHER GENERAL LINGUISTIC ISSUES
• On Functional Complementation as an All-Level Analytical Procedure in Language Research (1965)
• On the Integration of the Peripheral Elements into the System of Language (1966)
• On the Interplay of External and Internal Factors in the Development of Language (1962)
• A Note on Future Prospects of Diachronistic Language Research (1968)
• Zum Problem der geschriebenen Sprache (1939)
• Written Language and Printed Language (1948)
• Some Remarks on Writing and Phonetic Transcription (1945–9)
• The Present State of Research in Written Language (1972)
• C. ENGLISH PHONOLOGY
• The Phonematic Status of Modern English Long Vowels and Diphthongs (1963)
• The Place of [ɔI] in the Phonic Pattern of Southern British English (1965)
• Phonemic Remarks on the “Long Mixed Vowel” of Modern English (1965)
• On Peripheral Phonemes of Modern English (1964)
• I. Peripheral Elements in the Structure of Language
• II. The Elimination of the Modern English /h/-Phoneme
• III. The Early Middle English Phoneme /J/ and the Personal Pronoun She
• IV. The Phonematic Values of the English WH-Sounds
• V. The Problem of the Phonematic Status of the Modern English [n] -Sound
• VI. The Decline of the Modern English /r/
• VII. The Phonematic Relation of Modern English [i] and [j]
• VIII. The Modern English ‘Short Mixed Vowel’ as a Phonematic Problem
• IX. The Place of [ɔI] in the Modern English Phonematic Pattern
• Some Thoughts on the Phonology of Cockney English (1962)
• Some Phonological Problems of Modern English Sonant Sounds (1969)
• Remarks on the Sound Pattern of English (1970)
• D. OTHER PROBLEMS OF ENGLISH
• Some Less Familiar Aspect of the Analytical Trend of English (1961)
• I. Some Remarks on the Analytical Character of English
• II. The Status of the Word in Modern English
• III. The “Possessive Case” of Modern English
• IV. The Compactness of the Modern English Sentence
• V. The Oppositions of Quantity and Quality in Modem English Vowels
• VI. The Oppositions of Voice and Tension in Modern English Paired Consonants
• VII. The Eclipse of the Modern English Neutral Consonant
• Notes on Gender in Modern English (1964)
• On Social Differentiation of English Speech Habits (1960)
• Some Sociolinguistic Factors in the Development of English (1972)
• Two Chapters on Written English (1959)
• I. On the Functional Hierarchy of Spoken and Written Utterances
• II. Some Remarks on the Development of the Written Norm in English
• Index of persons
• Index of subjects