On Replotting the Beginnings of Western Language Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Editor's Preface xi
5. Conference Program xiii
6. Papers Read xvi
7. I. General Concerns
8. Persistent Issues in Linguistic Historiography 3
9. On Replotting the Beginnings of Western Language Theory 27
10. The Emergence of the Notion of Language in Modern Thought 37
11. The Genealogy of General Linguistics 47
12. Der Fehler 55
13. II. Oriental Linguistics and Related Issues
14. On the History of the Classification of Semitic Languages 67
15. History of Jewish Interlinguistics 75
16. Alchemical Phonology 83
17. Emergence of an Arabic Linguistic Paradigm 93
18. The Beginning of Polynesian Linguistics 105
19. III. From the Early Middle Ages to the End of the 17th Century
20. On the Grammarian's Self-Image in the Early Middle Ages 115
21. John Glykys and Syntactic Geometry 127
22. Language Teaching in Juan-Luis Vives (1492–1540) 137
23. Logic, Linguistics, and Simon Stevin in the Context of the 16th and 17th Centuries 147
24. The Logic of Dalgarno's Ars Signorum (1661) 157
25. Dictionaries and Usage in 17th-Century France 167
26. Ralph Lever's Witcraft 179
27. IV. On 19th-Century European Linguistics
28. A. Murray's Conception of Glottogenesis and N. Marr's Japhetic Doctrine 189
29. From Concept to Word 199
30. Odd Man Out 209
31. Eduardo Benot (1822–1907) 221
32. V. On the Verge of Modernity
33. The ‘Vocal Gesture’ from Wundt to Mead 235
34. The Volksgeist Concept in Dutch Linguistics 245
35. Das Dilemma eines Sprachwissenschaftlers im Spannungsfeld zwischen Philosophie und Psychologie: Ottmar Dittrich 255
36. The Development of Indo-European Studies 1870–1933 265
37. The Hale–Boas Debate on the Origin and Classification of Languages 291
38. Language and Action 299
39. VI. Contemporary Issues
40. Portraits of Women Linguists: Louise Pound, Edith Claflin, Adelaide Hahn 313
41. Language and Languages 321
42. Linguistic Diversity and Universal Grammar 327
43. Harris the Revolutionary 349
44. Quelques remarques sur l'émergence du générativisme 359
45. Index Nominum 369