Linguistic Historiography
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The present volume brings together the author's most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the legacy of a number of major 20th-century scholars. Some of the chapters are revisions of previously published articles, which together with new materials have been welded into a coherent volume.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 92] 1999. x, 236 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction: On the uses of the history of linguistics | pp. 1–20
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Part I. Topics in the Historiography of Linguistics | p. 21
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Ch. 1 The History of Linguistics: Attainments and remaining challenges | pp. 23–38
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Ch. 2 Linguistics and Ideology: A neglected aspect of 19th and 20th century historiography | pp. 39–60
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Ch. 3 Immediate and not so Immediate Sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis': Methodological considerations | pp. 61–84
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Ch. 4 The Concept of 'Revolution' in Linguistics: Historical, methodological, and philosophical issues | pp. 85–96
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Ch. 5 The Idea of Reconstruction in Comparative Linguistics: History and some modern debates | pp. 97–116
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Part II. Historical Perspectives on Individual Scholars | p. 117
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Ch. 6 Otto Jespersen as a Reader of the 'Cours de linguistique générale' | pp. 119–132
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Ch. 7 On the Sources of Roman Jakobson's Linguistic Inspiration | pp. 133–150
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Ch. 8 J. R. Firth's Musings on Saussurean Tenets | pp. 151–166
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Ch. 9 Einar Haugen as a Historian of Linguistics | pp. 167–182
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Ch. 10 The Authors of the Idea of Language as a System où tout se tient | pp. 183–200
“[...] written by a scholar who has been a major force in organizing, promoting and practising the historiography of linguistics during the past thirty years.”
Michael Mackert, German-English Language Services
“[...] full of insightful observations, thought-provoking ideas, and examples of how to do linguistic historiography [...].”
Jun Qian in The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 73-74, 2000
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Altman, Cristina
2021. Review of Koerner (2020): Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography. Historiographia Linguistica 48:1 ► pp. 127 ff. 
Bologna, Maria Patrizia
2011.
Due secoli di pensiero linguistico: Dai primi dell’Ottocento a oggi. By Giorgio Graffi. Historiographia Linguistica 38:3 ► pp. 428 ff.
Hurford, R.
2001. Random Boolean nets and features of language. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5:2 ► pp. 111 ff.
Koerner, E.F.K.
2001. In Memoriam: William G. Cowan (1929–2001). Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 46:3-4 ► pp. 291 ff.
Koerner, E. F. K.
Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma & Isaac N. Mwinlaaru
2022. The Way into Systemic Functional Linguistics. In Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics [The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, ], ► pp. 3 ff.
Plug, Leendert
2008. J. R. Firth: a new biography. Transactions of the Philological Society 106:3 ► pp. 337 ff.
Rebori, Victoria
van Pottelberge, Jeroen
2003. Die ursprünglichen fragestellungen hinter August schleichers Stammbaum-Theorie und Johannes Schmidts Wellen-Metapher. Historiographia Linguistica 30:3 ► pp. 301 ff.
Vykypěl, Bohumil
2021. Recenzie a Správy. Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 72:3 ► pp. 839 ff.
Zwartjes, Otto
2012. The Historiography of Missionary Linguistics. Historiographia Linguistica 39:2-3 ► pp. 185 ff.
Карп, Марта & Вікторія Мільчановська
2021. ПАРАГРАФЕМНІ ЗАСОБИ У КРЕАТИВНОМУ БЛОКНОТІ КЕРІ СМІТ ЗНИЩ ЦЕЙ ЩОДЕННИК: СТРУКТУРНИЙ АНАЛІЗ. Молодий вчений :12 (100) ► pp. 194 ff.
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2007. Preface. In Sound Change and the History of English, ► pp. ix ff.
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2007. Dedication. In Sound Change and the History of English, ► pp. ii ff.
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2007. List of Figures. In Sound Change and the History of English, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2007. Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening of i, u: etymological notes. In Sound Change and the History of English, ► pp. 174 ff.
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2007. Copyright Page. In Sound Change and the History of English, ► pp. iv ff.
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2007. Notations and Conventions. In Sound Change and the History of English, ► pp. xv ff.
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2007. Appendix 1 The principal sound changes from proto-Germanic to Early Modern English. In Sound Change and the History of English, ► pp. 161 ff.
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2020. Chapter 1. The historiography of linguistics past, present, future. In Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 128], ► pp. 4 ff.
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2020. Chapter 2. Pour une historiographie engagée; or where historians of linguistics could still do better. In Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 128], ► pp. 38 ff.
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Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General