TY - BOOK AU - Palmer,Leonard R TI - Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics: A critical Introduction SN - 0-571-09940-8 PY - 1972/// CY - London PB - Faber and Faber KW - Tesauro de la Unesco KW - LINGÜÍSTICA COMPARATIVA KW - LINGUISTICA DESCRIPTIVA N1 - Table of Phonetic Symbols. - Index of Authors. - Subject Index N2 - This book is divided into two major sections: 'Descriptive Linguistics' includes chapters on 'The Analysis and Description of the Speech', 'Transformational Grammar' and 'Semantics: the use of Words'; and 'Historical and Comparative Linguistics' including chapters on 'Sound Change', 'Dialects', 'Etymology', and 'Language and Culture' ER -