Serbo-Croatian Adjective-Declension Nouns and Viggo Brøndal’s Principle of Compensation

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. In Honor of Ranko Bugarski: On Language in Context — Towards Integration in Linguistics ix
4. Ranko Bugarski: Select List of Publications, 1968–1999 xv
5. Part I. Towards the History of Language Study
6. The Impact of the Relationship Between Language, Thought, and Action on the Applied Potential of Approaches to the Study of Language 3
7. Historical Linguistics in Time 43
8. Two Approaches to Morphological Typology and the Diachronic Characterization and Comparison of Languages 71
9. The Amnesic Syndromes of Structuralism 85
10. Saussure’s View of the Value of Diachrony 101
11. J. R. Firth and the Cours de linguistique générale 115
12. Part II. Towards Integration in Language Study
13. Serbo-Croatian Adjective-Declension Nouns and Viggo Brøndal’s Principle of Compensation 133
14. The Markedness Principle and the Slavic Color Vocabulary 141
15. The Semantics of a Hero 147
16. Clitics and Lexical Features in Generative Grammar 157
17. Preterite and Perfect in Modern English 171
18. Part III. Towards Language Study in Context
19. Forty Years of Evolution in Contact Linguistics 185
20. Historical-Primary Etymology vs. Secondary Etymology of Anglicisms in European Languages 205
21. Language Issues in Ethnic Studies 217
22. A Diachronic Approach to Sociolinguistics 235
23. A Possible Sociolinguistic Universal 257
24. A Sketch for a Chronicle of (Anti-)Prescriptivism 271
25. Name Index 285
26. Subject Index 289