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Falk, Julia S. 2003 Turn to the history of linguistics: Noam Chomsky and Charles Hockett in the 1960s Historiographia Linguistica 30:1/2, pp. 129–185 | Article

In the 1940s and 1950s, the leading proponents of American synchronic linguistics showed little interest in the history of linguistics. Some attention to historiography occurred in subfields of linguistics closest to the humanities – linguistic anthropology, historical linguistics, modern… read more

Falk, Julia S. 1999 'Language as a living, cultural phenomenon': Gladys Amanda Reichard and the study of native American languages History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 111–118 | Chapter

Falk, Julia S. and John E. Joseph 1996 Further notes on Reinhold E. Saleski: With a reprint of his “Principle of form in historical and psychological linguistics” (1931) Historiographia Linguistica 23:1/2, pp. 211–223 | Miscellaneous

Falk, Julia S. 1995 Portraits of Women Linguists: Louise Pound, Edith Claflin, Adelaide Hahn 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. 313–320 | Article

Falk, Julia S. 1995 Roman Jakobson and the history of Saussurean concepts in North American Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 22:3, pp. 335–367 | Article

Leonard Bloomfield was the major force in the initial dissemination of Saussurean concepts in North America (Joseph 1989a, Koerner 1989), but his role was limited to his middle years from 1922 to 1933, and for some time thereafter American linguists paid little attention to Saussure’s Cours. In… read more

Falk, Julia S. and John E. Joseph 1994 The Saleski family and the founding of the LSA linguistic institutes Historiographia Linguistica 21:1/2, pp. 137–156 | Article

The Linguistic Institutes (LIs) of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) were first envisaged by R. E. Saleski (1890–1971), an obscure scholar who for a time played a prominent role within the LSA (including the administration of the early LIs), but was inexplicably marginalized around 1931–32.… read more