CONTENTS

PAGE

Editor's Foreword 11

CHAPTER

L Introduction 15

Part I

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF
LANGUAGE

IL The Story of the Alphabet 47

III. Accidence—The Table Manners of Lan-

guage 89

IV. Syntax—The Traffic Rules of Language 129
V. The Classification of Languages 176

Part II
OUR HYBRID HERITAGE
VI. How to Learn the Basic Word List 219
VII. BirdVEye View of Teutonic Grammar 261
VIIL The Latin Legacy 309
IX, Modern Descendants of Latin 349
Part III
THE WORLD LANGUAGE PROBLEM
X, The Diseases of Language 405
XL Pioneers of Language Planning 443
XIL Language Planning for a New Order 481