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Toward a Historiography of Linguistics

Selected Essays
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1978

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The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author’s reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th century linguistic thought. The papers are clustered in three sections: I. Towards a Historiography of Linguistics, II. Appraisals of Individual Scholars, and III. Trends and Traditions in Linguistics.

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    Prelim pages

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    Acknowledgements

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    Table of contents

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    Foreword

    ix
    Robert H. Robins
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    Author's Preface

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  • I.  Toward a Historiography of Linguistics
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    1. Linguistic Historiography till 1970

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    2. Towards a Historiography of Linguistics

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    3. Four Types of History Writing in Linguistics

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

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  • II. Appraisals of Individual Scholars
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    5. Hermann Paul and Synchronic Linguistics

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    6. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

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    7. A Minor Figure in 19th-century French Linguistics

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    8. Animadversions on Some Recent Claims regarding the Relationship between Georg von der Gabelentz and Ferdinand de Saussure

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  • III. Trends and Traditions in Linguistics
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    9. Bloomfieldian Linguistics and the Problem of ‘Meaning’

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    10. Zu Ursprung und Entwicklung des Phonem-Begriffs

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    11. 1876 as a Turning Point in the History of Linguistics

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    12. Zu Ursprung und Geschichte der Besternung in der historischen Sprachwissenschaft Eine historiographische Notiz

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    Index of Authors

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Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.19
eBook ISBN: 9789027286543
Keywords for this book
History of linguistics
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