Table of contents
Foreword & Acknowledgements
Honorary President’s Address
Editors’ introduction
Part I. European linguistics in the 17th and late 18th centuries
“Inversions of word order generate higher costs”: Continuity and development of a topos since the rationalist language theories of the 17th century
Qui a écrit la Grammaire générale et raisonnée?
Travail du pouvoir et productions sur la ‘langue française’ au XVIIe siècle
The main characteristics of grammar-writing in Slovenia between 1584 and 1758
Part II. Linguistics in the late 18th and 19th centuries
Western grammars of the Chinese language in the 18th and 19th centuries: Studies on ‘cenemes’ and word formation
L’universalité du discours et le génie des langues dans la Grammaire philosophique et littéraire (1823–1824) de Nicolas Paquis de Sauvigny
The reception of Court de Gébelin in 19th-century Portuguese grammar: The case of the anonymous Regras de Grammatica Portugueza (1841)
Morphologie du langage et typologie linguistique: La connexion ‘Schleicher — Saint-Pétersbourg’
L’évolution du terme ‘sémiologie’ chez Saussure: 1881–1891
Part III. Theoretical issues in the 20th-century linguistic thought
Questioning the idea of ‘founding text’: Harris’s Discourse Analysis and French Analyse du discours
Earlier and later anti-psychologism in linguistics
Looking for a semantic theory: The path taken by Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1931–1960)
Part IV. Russian and Soviet linguistics
Soviet linguistics and world linguistics
Anti-positivism in early Soviet linguistics: A Marxist or idealist stance?
De la fusion des langues au repli sur soi (URSS 1917–1953)
Semantics as a background for (pre)semiotic trends in Russian intellectual history of the 1920s–1930s (and beyond)
Présence de la Russie dans le réseau phonétique international (1886–1940)
Index of biographical names
Index of subjects and terms
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