Table of Contents

Preface
A Note on Transcription
Abbreviations

Part I.
1. Phonological Systems Considered in Themselves and in Relation to General Language Structure
2. Phonology versus Phonetics
3. The Systematic Phonological Representation of Languages
4. A Theory of Phonological Oppositions
5. On a New Critique of the Concept of the Phoneme
6. Phonology and Linguistic Geography
7. Quantity as a Phonological Problem
8. The Phonological Basis of Quantity in Various Languages
9. How Should the Sound System of an Artificial International Language Be Structured?
10. On Morphonology
11. Thoughts on Morphonology
12. The Relation between the Modifier, the Modified, and the Definite

Part II.
13. The Problem of Genetic Relations among the Great Language Families
14. Thoughts on the Indo-European Problem
15. Thoughts on the Latin a-Subjunctive
16. The Pronunciation of the Greek x in the Ninth Century A.D.
17. The Phonetic Evolution of Russian and the Disintegration of the Common Russian Linguistic Unity
18. On the Chronology of Some Common Slavic Sound Changes
19. On the Original Value of the Common Slavic Accents
20. On the Proto-Slavic Accents
21. On the Development of the Gutturals in the Slavic Languages
22. Remarks on Some Iranian Words Borrowed by the North Caucasian Languages
23. On the Prehistory of East Caucasian Languages
24. The Universal Adoption of the Roman Alphabet: Peoples of the Caucasus
25. The Phonological System of Mordvin Compared with That of Russia

Part III. From Trubetzkoy’s Letters to Roman Jakobson
Some Considerations on the History of Language
General Phonology
Prosody
Historical Phonology
An Overview of the History of the Slavic Languages
Prehistory of Slavic Phonetics: An Overview
An Overview of the Phonetic History of Russian
Slavic (and Baltic) Accentuation and Metrics
Morphology
The Reception of Phonology
Contemporary Linguistics: Stray Thoughts on Old and Contemporary Scholars

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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