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Preface Typographical conventions 1. Language, speech and writing 2. In defence of (so-called) autonomous linguistics 3. Linguistic theory and theoretical linguistics 4. Natural, non-natural and unnatural languages: English, Urdu and other abstractions 5. The origin of language, speech and languages 6. Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typological reflections 7. Towards a 'notional' theory of the 'parts of speech' 8. Deixis as the source of reference 9. Deixis and anaphora Appendix: the scientific study of language. Inaugural lecture, Edinburgh, 1965 Notes References Subject index Names index.

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