Name index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword and acknowledgements ix
4. Editors’ introduction xiii
5. Part I. Notions
6. Un essai d’histoire comparée de la grammatisation des langues romanes 3
7. Linguistic description and language philosophy in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s North American grammars 21
8. La phrase grammaticale moderne 35
9. Wegener’s Wortsatz and the notion of sentence 49
10. Why is it so hard to establish gestalt ideas within linguistics? 65
11. Part II. Representations of language and reception of theories
12. Klaproth, Balbi and the language atlas 81
13. Nation and race in the twentieth century scientific discourse on Viking Age runestones 101
14. L’homme dans la langue 113
15. Saussure/Mallarmé 129
16. Introducing and translating Otto Jespersen in China in the past 100 years 143
17. On the reception and revivification of Cartesian linguistics 157
18. Part III. Pedagogy, linguistic policy and codification
19. Greek grammatical learning papyri 173
20. The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics 189
21. Sprache der Nähe vs. Sprache der Distanz and the nineteenth century codification of Modern Czech 205
22. Linguists and lawyers 221
23. Name index 237
24. Subject index 241
25. Name index 237