Table of contents for N. S. Trubetzkoy : studies in general linguistics and language structure / edited and with an introduction by Anatoly Liberman ; translated by Marvin Taylor and Anatoly Liberman.

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Preface vii

A Note on Transcription xiii

Abbreviations xv

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1. Phonological Systems Considered in Themselves and in
   Relation to General Language Structure 3

2. Phonology versus Phonetics 6

3. The Systematic Phonological Representation of Languages 11

4. A Theory of Phonological Oppositions 14

5. On a New Critique of the Concept of the Phoneme 22

6. Phonology and Linguistic Geography 39

7. Quantity as a Phonological Problem 44

8. The Phonological Basis of Quantity in Various Languages 50

9. How Should the Sound System of an Artificial International
   Language Be Structured? 60

10. On Morphonology 72

11. Thoughts on Morphonology 75

12. The Relation between the Modifier, the Modified, and
    the Definite 78

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13. The Problem of Genetic Relations among the Great Language
    Families 85

14. Thoughts on the Indo-European Problem 87

15. Thoughts on the Latin d-Subjunctive 99

16. The Pronunciation of Greek X in the Ninth Century A.D. 104




17. The Phonetic Evolution of Russian and the Disintegration
    of the Common Russian Linguistic Unity 1og

18. On the Chronology of Some Common Slavic Sound Changes 129

19. On the Original Value of the Common Slavic Accents 141

20. On the Proto-Slavic Accents 152

21. On the Development of the Gutturals in the Slavic Languages 157

22. Remarks on Some Iranian Words Borrowed by the North Caucasian
    Languages 165

23. On the Prehistory of the East Caucasian Languages 170

24. The Universal Adoption of the Roman Alphabet:
    Peoples of the Caucasus 175

25. The Phonological System of Mordvin Compared
    with That of Russian 178

III From Trubetzkoy's Letters to RomanJakobson

Some Considerations on the History of Language 183

General Phonology 186

Prosody 194

Historical Phonology 207

An Overview of the History of the Slavic Languages 211

Prehistory of Slavic Phonetics: An Overview 213

An Overview of the Phonetic History of Russian 214

Slavic (and Baltic) Accentuation and Metrics 218

Morphology 234

The Reception of Phonology 239

Contemporary Linguistics: Stray Thoughts on Old and Contemporary
  Scholars 253

Notes 259

Bibliography 281

Indexes 295