CONTENTS // 3 // CONTENTS page // HISTORY 5 // (1) The origin of language 5 // (2) The history of diachronic linguistics 9 // (3) The history of synchronic linguistics 15 // (4) Structuralism 20 // (5) The programme of linguistics characterology 22 // FUNCTIONAL ONOMATOLOGY 27 // (6) Some general remarks on the act of naming 27 // (7) Naming units seen from the point of view of content 38 // (8) Naming units seen from the point of view of form 48 // __ . (9) The formation of new naming units 50 // (10) The classification of naming units 62 // (11) The English and the Czech nouns 65 // (12) The English and the Czech adjectives 71 // (13) The English and the Czech verbs 72 // BIBLIOGRAPHY 78 // INDEX OF CZECH WORDS INDEX OF ENGLISH WORDS GLOSSARY (compiled by Milan Ružicka) //