Table of contents
Prefatory RemarksV
Part I. Topics in the Histor(iograph)y of Linguistics
1. Persistent Issues in Linguistic Historiography3
2. ‘Metalanguage’ in Linguistic Historiography27
3. The Natural Science Impact on Theory Formation in 19th and 20th Century Linguistics47
4. Saussure and the Question of the Sources of His Linguistic Theory77
5. Chomsky's Readings of the Cours de linguistique générale96
Part II. Historical Accounts of Linguistic Subfields
6. Toward a History of Modern Sociolinguistics117
7. Toward a History of Americanist Linguistics135
8. Toward a History of Linguistic Typology151
9. History and Historiography of Phonetics: A state-of-the-art account171
10. The ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’: An historico-bibliographical essay203
Appendix: List of papers, 1970–1995241
Index of Authors261
Index of Subjects271
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