The Best of Language: Volume I

Volume 1 (1925–1955) Volume 2 (1956–1985) Volume 3 (1986–2016) Anthology Overview

VOLUME 1

The Best of Language is a three-volume compilation of the best articles published in the Language, the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Language has been published continuously since 1925, and in that long history there are a number of influential, controversial, or otherwise interesting articles. Volume 1 contains a select number of articles published from 1925–1955.

Introduction

Bloomfield, Leonard. 1925. Why a linguistic society? Lg. 1:1-5.

Bloomfield, Leonard. 1926. A set of postulates for linguistics as a science. Lg. 2:153-164.

Bloomfield, Leonard. 1928. Note on sound change. Lg. 4:99-100.

Sapir, Edward. 1925. Sound patterns in language. Lg. 1:37-51.

Boas, Franz. 1929. Classification of American Indian languages. Lg. 5:1-7.

Swadesh, Morris. 1934. The phonemic principle. Lg. 10:117-129.

Hockett, Charles F. 1942. A system of descriptive phonology. Lg. 18:3-21.

Wells, Rulon. 1947. Immediate constituents. Lg. 23:81-117.

Bloch, Bernard. 1948. A set of postulates for phonemic analysis. Lg. 24:3-46.

Bloch, Bernard. 1949. Obituary of Leonard Bloomfield. Lg. 25:87-98.

Nida, Eugene. 1948. Identification of morphemes. Lg. 24:414-441.