8. The Biological Naturalism of August Schleicher

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. TABLE OF CONTENTS 7
4. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 10
5. LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
6. 1. Introduction 13
7. 2. Linguistic Research in Ancient Greece 15
8. 3. The Indian Grammatical School 22
9. 4. From the Days of the Roman Empire to the end of the Renaissance 26
10. 5. From the Renaissance to the end of the Eighteenth Century 31
11. LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
12. 6. Introduction 37
13. 7. The Epoch of the First Comparativists 40
14. 8. The Biological Naturalism of August Schleicher 44
15. 9. "Humboldtism" in Linguistics (the "Weltanschauung" theory) 48
16. 10. Psychologism in Linguistics 52
17. 11. The Neo-grammarians 58
18. 12. Hugo Schuchardt, a Representative of the "Independents" 65
19. LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
20. 13. Introduction 69
21. 14. Non-Structural Linguistics 78
22. 15. Structural Linguistics 113
23. 16. Logical Symbolism in Linguistics 186
24. 17. Linguistic Syntax and the Generative Approach 203
25. 18. Mathematical Linguistics 212
26. Subject Index 243
27. Index of Proper Names 255