Book review
Michel Bréal: The Beginnings of Semantics. Edited and translated by George Wolf
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Michel Bréal: The Beginnings of Semantics London: Duckworth, 1991. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1991. 332 pp.
Reviewed by
Brigitte Nerlich | University of Nottingham
Published online: 01 January 1991
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.18.2-3.14ner
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.18.2-3.14ner
References
Bréal, Michel
1877 Mélanges de mythologie et de linguistique. Paris: Hachette. (2nd ed. 1882.)
1897 Essai de sémantique: Science des significations. Paris: Hachette. (2nd rev. ed. 1899; 3rd rev. ed. 1904; 4th ed 1908; 5th ed. 1911; 6th ed. 1913; 7th ed. 1924.)
Darmesteter, Arsène
1886 La Vie des mots étudiée dans leurs significations. Paris: Delagrave. (New ed. 1887; 3rd ed. 1889; 10th ed. 1910.)
Delesalle, Simone
1987 “Vie des mots et sciences des significations: Arsène Darmesteter et Michel Bréal”. DRLAV: Revue de linguistique Nos.36/371.265–314. 
1989 “L’Essai de sémantique de Bréal: Du ‘transformisme’ à la diachronie”. La Linguistique génétique: Histoire et théories ed. by André Joly, 43–55. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille III.
Delesalle, Simone & Jean-Claude Chevalier eds
1986 La Linquistique, la grammaire et l’école 1750–1914 Paris: Armand Colin.
Firth, John Rupert
1935 “The Technique of Semantics”. Transactions of the Philological Society 1935.36–72. (Repr. in Firth, Papers in Linguistics 1934–1951, 7–33. London: Oxford Univ. Press 1957.)
Paul, Hermann
1880 Principien der Sprachgeschichte. Halle/S.: Max Niemeyer. (2nd ed. 1886; 5th enl. ed. 1920.)
Schuchardt, Hugo
1885 Über die Lautgesetze. Gegen die Junggrammatiker. Berlin: R. Oppenheim.
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Nerlich, Brigitte
1996.
De la grammaire comparée à la sémantique: Textes de Michel Bréal publiés entre 1864 et 1898. Introduction, commentaires et bibliographie par Piet Desmet et Pierre Swiggers.
Historiographia Linguistica 23:3 ► pp. 435 ff.
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