Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & acknowledgments 1
4. Editors’ introduction 3
5. Part 1. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
6. Chapter 1. Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other? 14
7. Chapter 2. Type or descent? 31
8. Chapter 3. Le futur antérieur des linguistes (fin 19 e – début 20 e siècle) 47
9. Chapter 4. Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener 60
10. Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin’s idea of language 77
11. Chapter 6. Eléments pour une histoire de l’interprétation 88
12. Chapter 7. “Computational linguistics” as the horizon of projection of early machine translation 102
13. Part 2. Antiquity
14. Chapter 8. Declension and description 116
15. Chapter 9. Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds 129
16. Chapter 10. The internal order of Sanskrit compounds 145
17. Part 3. Sixteenth to twentieth century works
18. Chapter 11. How far are the horizons of descriptive linguistics? 160
19. Chapter 12. The relevance of B. Delbrück’s work on Indo-European syntax (a century after his death) 179
20. Chapter 13. Three documents bearing on the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America in the age of scientific racism 198
21. Chapter 14. Archival resources for the study of the historiography of American linguistics 211
22. Chapter 15. Courses in general linguistics by Roman Jakobson at the École Libre des Hautes Études 220
23. Chapter 16. Contribution de Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959) à l’analyse des variations phoniques du langage 238
24. Chapter 17. The structuralist quest for general meanings 248
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