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Hathaway, B. A.

"1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading"


5. _How many kinds of Artificial Language?_
Two.
6. _What are they._
Spoken and written.
7. _What is Spoken Language?_
That produced by the vocal organs.
8. _What is Written Language?_
Any method of communicating thought or feeling by the use of
written or printed characters.
9. _What are the messengers of thought?_
Sentences.
10. _What is a Sentence?_
An assemblage of words conveying a thought.
11. _What is a Word?_
A sign of an idea.
12. _What is Lexicology?_
That science which treats of the meaning of words.
13. _What is Etymology?_
That science which treats of the origin and derivation of words.
14. _What is Orthogeny?_
That science which treats of the classification of words into
parts of speech.
15. _What is Syntax?_
That science which treats of the relation and connection of words
in the construction of a sentence.
16. _What is Prosody?_
That science which treats of punctuation and the laws of
versification.
17. _Of what is a word composed?_
A syllable or combination of syllables.


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