Chapter published in:
History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics
Edited by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 95] 1999
► pp. 175–

'A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced than any that has yet Appeared'

English as a 'perfect' language in eighteenth-century linguistic thought

Published online: 15 December 1999
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.95.24lau