An open access publication of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Preface

by Stephen R. Graubard
 


The Problems of Language

by Ein Ar Haugen
 


The Study of Language

by Morton Bloomfield
 



The Variety of Language
 


The Nature of Language

by William G. Moulton
 


Language Problems of Variation and Repertoire

by Charles Ferguson
 


The Curse of Babel

by Einar Haugen
 


On The Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Speakers

by Dell Hymes
 


Linguistics and Anthropology

by Karl V. Teeter
 


Language and Its History

by Calvert Watkins
 



The Learning of Language
 


The Neurology of Language

by Eric H. Lenneberg
 


Problems for Education: Language as Curriculum Content and Learning Environment

by Courtney B. Cazden
 


Second Language Learning

by Peter Strevens
 



The Functions of Language
 


Do We Understand Sentences from the Outside-In or from the Inside-Out?

by Eric Wanner
 


Logic and Language

by Edward L. Keenan
 


The Problem of Linguistic Theory in Relation to Language Behavior: A Tribute and Reply to Paul Goodman

by D. Terence Langendoen
 


Language and Interpersonal Relationships

by David G. Hays
 


Automatic Translation of Natural Languages

by Martin Kay
 


The Role of Linguistics in a Theory of Poetry

by Paul Kiparsky

Nineteenth-century depiction of a Roman mosaic labyrinth, now lost, found in Villa di Diomede, Pompeii