4. The Importance of Linguistic Historiography and the Place of History in Linguistic Science

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgements vi
3. Table of contents vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Author's Preface xv
6. I.  Toward a Historiography of Linguistics
7. 1. Linguistic Historiography till 1970 3
8. 2. Towards a Historiography of Linguistics 21
9. 3. Four Types of History Writing in Linguistics 55
10. 4. The Importance of Linguistic Historiography and the Place of History in Linguistic Science 63
11. II. Appraisals of Individual Scholars
12. 5. Hermann Paul and Synchronic Linguistics 73
13. 6. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay 107
14. 7. A Minor Figure in 19th-century French Linguistics 127
15. 8. Animadversions on Some Recent Claims regarding the Relationship between Georg von der Gabelentz and Ferdinand de Saussure 137
16. III. Trends and Traditions in Linguistics
17. 9. Bloomfieldian Linguistics and the Problem of ‘Meaning’ 155
18. 10. Zu Ursprung und Entwicklung des Phonem-Begriffs 177
19. 11. 1876 as a Turning Point in the History of Linguistics 189
20. 12. Zu Ursprung und Geschichte der Besternung in der historischen Sprachwissenschaft Eine historiographische Notiz 211
21. Index of Authors 217