First published in Great Britain in 1935, this Routledge Revivalreissuesone of the most influential works ever publishedin the field oflinguistics. Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of academic scholarship, which examines the fundamentals of language and linguistics in aclear, precise manner. Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, for both the general reader and for students of linguistics, this detailed study covers a breadth of topics, ranging from: world languages, phonetic structure and syntax, through tomorphology, semantics and dialectics.