6. The Place of Geology in W.D. Whitney’s Linguistic Argument

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface & Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. I. Programmatic Papers in the History of Linguistics
5. 1. On the Place of Linguistic Historiography within the Sciences of Language, again 3
6. 2. Ideology, Politics, and Social-Science Scholarship: On the responsibility of intellectuals 19
7. 3. Myths in the History of Linguistics: The case of the goals of Georg Wenker’s dialectology 43
8. 4. On ‘Influence’ in Linguistic Historiography: Morphophonemics in American structuralism 65
9. II. Studies in Linguistic Historiography
10. 5. Missionary Linguistics in the America: The ‘heroic period’ 103
11. 6. The Place of Geology in W.D. Whitney’s Linguistic Argument 145
12. 7. Toward a Historiography of Polish Linguistics 159
13. 8. Three Saussures — one ‘structuralist’ avant la lettre 175
14. III. Sketches historiographical and (auto)biographical
15. 9. R.H. Robins, J.R. Firth, and Linguistic Historiography 197
16. 10. My Edinburgh Connections, 1964–present 207
17. 11. Remarks on the Pre-History of the Henry Sweet Society 223
18. 12. Notes on the Early History of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences 231
19. IV. Addendum
20. Zellig S. Harris: A complete bibliography of his writings, 1932–2002 239
21. Index of Biographical Names 259
22. Index of Subjects, Terms & Languages 267