Papers in General Linguistics

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Trnka, B. -- Table Of Contents -- Some Remarks on the Problem of the Phoneme -- Phonological Exploitation of Vowel Phonemes -- To the Problem of the Consonantal Correlations of Timbre -- The Origin and Function of Vowel Harmony in Ural-Altaic Languages -- On the Functional Conception of the Syllable -- On the Phonological Law of Incompatibility of Free Quantity and Free Stress -- Is English a Germanic Language? -- The Place of the Word in the Language System -- A Quantitative Typology of Languages -- Some Statistical Observations on the Role of the Place of Articulation in Languages -- The Frequency of Occurrence of Vowel Phonemes in Languages Possessing Vowel Systems of Identical Structure -- A Typological Study of Morphological Homonymy in Languages -- Some Ways of Expressing the Category of Determinedness -- Index of Names -- Index of Languages -- General Index