Robert H. Robins

List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert H. Robins plays a role.

Titles

Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Robert H. Robins

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 26] 1980. vi, 321 pp.

Subjects History of linguistics | Medieval linguistics | Medieval philosophy

Toward a Historiography of Linguistics: Selected Essays

E.F.K. Koerner †

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 19] 1978. xx, 222 pp.

Subjects History of linguistics

Articles

Robins, Robert H. 1995. John Glykys and Syntactic Geometry. History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 127 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1992. 3. Some thoughts on the prehistory of language. Prehistory, History and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory: Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi I, Brogyanyi, Bela (ed.), pp. 39 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1990. Leibniz and Wilhelm von Humboldt and the History of Comparative Linguistics. Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986, De Mauro, Tullio † and Lia Formigari (eds.), pp. 85 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1987. Duponceau and Early Nineteenth-Century Linguistics. Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 435 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1987. Social phonological constraints on grammatical formations: examples from four languages. Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 307 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1987. Some phonological constraints on grammatical formations: examples from four languages. Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 307 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1985. A Linguistic Appreciation of a Poem by A. E. Housman. Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language: Festschrift for Robert Lado, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 465 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1983. Foundations of Western Linguistics: From the beginning to the end of the first millenium A.D. By Even Hovdhaugen. Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 348–350

Review

Robins, Robert H. 1980. Preface. Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2, pp. 1–5

To be specified

Robins, Robert H. 1980. Preface. Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980, Koerner, E.F.K. †, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Robert H. Robins (eds.), pp. 1 ff.

Miscellaneous

Robins, Robert H. 1980. Functional Syntax in Medieval Europe. Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2, pp. 231–240

In contrast to the fairly fully developed theories of phonological and morphological description achieved by classical antiquity, no general theory of syntax (sentence structure) was presented in the works of the classical grammarians such as Apollonius Dyscolus and Priscian, but rather a… read more | Review article

Robins, Robert H. 1980. Functional Syntax in Medieval Europe. Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980, Koerner, E.F.K. †, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Robert H. Robins (eds.), pp. 231 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1980. Postscript. Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 403 ff.

Article

Robins, Robert H. 1978. Foreword. Toward a Historiography of Linguistics: Selected Essays, Koerner, E.F.K. †, pp. ix ff.

Miscellaneous

Robins, Robert H. 1975. Studies in the History of Linguistics: Traditions and paradigms. Ed. by Dell Hymes. Historiographia Linguistica 2:2, pp. 244–249

Review

Robins, Robert H. 1974. Theory-Orientation Versus Data-Orientation: A recurrent theme in linguistics. Historiographia Linguistica 1:1, pp. 11–26

Two contrasting attitudes towards the scientific study of language have been apparent from the earliest period of linguistic studies in Europe. The forms that the contrast has taken have varied from one era to another. In Greece the debate was between the claims of grammar to be a science (téchnè)… read more | Article