Contents of Volume Two

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. ICHOLS VII Selection Committee xi
5. Conference Programme xiii
6. I. Generalia
7. The concept of 'revolution' in linguistics 3
8. Georg(e) Forster und Wilhelm von Humboldt - oder 15
9. The subject-predicate debate X-rayed 41
10. Ape linguistics (or: Is Kanzi a cartesian?) 57
11. II. Missionary Linguistics
12. From 'Insula Vera Crux' to 'Terra Brasiliensis' 71
13. Morphosyntactic analysis exotic languages in Lorenzo Hervás (1735-1809) 81
14. Diverse sounds and similar meanings 91
15. An anonymous eighteenth-century Southern Peruvian vocabulary 99
16. 'Language as a living, cultural phenomenon' 111
17. Main trends in the history of linguistics in Mexico 119
18. The colonial linguistics of Léopold de Saussure 127
19. Horatio Hale's grammatical sketch of Tsihaili-Selish 139
20. Innovations in a vernacular grammar 147
21. Investigating diversity 155
22. Learning Urdu in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries 165
23. III. The Celtic Tradition
24. Edward Davies and paradigm shift in nineteenth-century Celtic studies 175
25. J.G. Sparwenfeldt and Celtic linguistics in seventeenth-century Sweden 181
26. Latinate terminology in 'Auraicept na nÉces' 191
27. Moth, toth, traeth 203
28. IV. The Chinese Tradition
29. Y.R. Chao and Universal Chinese Grammar 217
30. V. The Georgian Tradition
31. Theories on the origin of Kartuli [Georgian] writing [alphabet] 227
32. Case System of a Name in Anton I Bagrationi's (1720-1788) Kartuli [Georgian] Grammar 235
33. VI. The Hebrew Tradition
34. On the history of semitic linguistic philosophy 241
35. Abraham de Balmes and his grammar of Biblical Hebrew 249
36. VII. The Japanese Tradition
37. European tradition in the history of linguistics in Japan 261
38. VIII. The Persian Tradition
39. The development and the climax of the Persian grammatical tradition 271
40. The Persian Grammar of Sir William Jones 277
41. IX. The Russian Tradition
42. Quelques repères dans la définition de la norme grammaticale en Russie au XVIIIe siècle 291
43. La théorie des deux sciences dans la linguistique russe et soviétique 301
44. X. The Tamil Tradition
45. The conception of 'coordination' in ancient Tamil grammar 313
46. Abstracts 321
47. Contents of Volume Two 327
48. Index of Names 331
49. Index of Topics 334