A Brief History of American Sociolinguistics, 1949-1989

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword by the General Editor vii
4. Articles/Aufsätze
5. The Abandonment of Nómos in Greek Linguistic Thought 1
6. Dionysius Thrax vs Marcus Varro 15
7. Reflections on the History of Dependency Notions in Linguistics 29
8. Language Variation and Linguistic Description in 16th-Century France 49
9. A 17th-Century Account of Mohawk 67
10. Neo-Aristotelian Grammar in 17th-Century England 87
11. Liberalism in Lockean Linguistics 99
12. Wilhelm von Humboldt and North American Ethnolinguistics: Boas (1894) — Hymes (1961) 111
13. Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist Text Tradition 129
14. Skinner and Chomsky Thirty Years Later 145
15. Competence vs. Performance; Theoretical vs. Applied 167
16. A Brief History of American Sociolinguistics, 1949-1989 183
17. Phonetics and Phonology, 1949-1989 211
18. Index of Authors 231