Editor's Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Editor's Foreword vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. Sixty Years in Linguistics 1
5. Long-Term Commitments and Lucky Events 39
6. A Pilgrim's Progress 59
7. Between Logic and Linguistics 71
8. A Linguistic Round Trip 81
9. Linguistics to the Beat of a Different Drummer 97
10. Linguistics from the Bottom up 131
11. A Linguistic Pilgrimage 143
12. … quem legis ut noris 159
13. C'est passionnant d'être passionné 187
14. From English Philology to Linguistics and Back Again 227
15. The Story of a Linguist malgré lui 247
16. Index of Biographical Names 257
17. Index of Subjects, Terms, and Languages 263