Polivanov E.D. Selected Works. Articles on General Linguistics

Compiled by: A.A. Leont’ev. Editorial committee: F.D. Ašnin, V.P. Grigor’ev, Vjač.V. Ivanov, A.A. Leont’ev, A.A. Reformatskij (Chairman). — Translated by Daniel Armstrong from the Russian edition: “Nauka” Publishers, Moscow, 1968. — The Hague, Paris: Mouton: 1974. — 386 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior, 72).Preface to the English Edition
From the Editors
The Life and Activities of E. D. Polivanov
List of the Works of E. D. Polivanov
Basic Literature on E. D. Polivanov
Selected Works on General Linguistics
Introductory Section
Specific Features of the Last Decade, 1917-1927, in the History of Our Linguistic Thought (In Lieu of a Foreword)
The Theory of Language Evolution
Factors in the Phonetic Evolution of Language as a Work Process
Where Do the Reasons for Language Evolution Lie?
Mutational Changes in the Phonic History of Language
The Law of the Change of Quantity into Quality in the Processes of Historical Phonetic Evolution
A Review of R. Jakobson’s Book
Methods of Comparative Historical Linguitics
One of the Japanese-Malayan Parallels
Toward Work on Musical Accentuation in Japanese (In Connection with Malayan Languages)
Toward the Question of the Kinship Relations of Korean and the “Altaic” Languages
Indo-European *medhu — Common Chinese *mit
Indo-European *sū-[s] — Ancient Chinese *ču ‘pig’
The Dungan Plural Suffix -mw
Sociological Linguistics
The Problem of Marxist Linguistics and the Japhetic Theory (Résumé of a Report)
The Sphere of Immediate Problems in Contemporary Linguistics
Revolution and the Literary Languages of the U.S.S.R
On the Phonetic Features of the Dialects of Social Groups and, in Particular, of Standard Russian
The Phonetics of the Language of Intellectuals
Applied Linguistics
The Subjective Nature of the Perceptions of Language Sounds
On Three Principles of Constructing an Orthography
On the Russian Transcription of Japanese Words
Even Mathematics Can Be Useful
Linguistics and Poetics
Apropos “Sound Gestures” in Japanese
Formal Types of Japanese Riddles
On the Metrical Nature of Chinese Versification
Appendix
Commentary I
Commentary II
Historical Linguistics and Language Policy
The General Phonetic Principle of Any Poetic Technique
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
Index of Words by Language