From Particular to General Linguistics
Selected Essays 1965–1978
With an introduction by the author, an index rerum and an index nominum
The period of 1965 to 1978 was an extremely productive time for U.S. (Russian born) Romance etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel whose specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. Malkiel will be known as the great champion of etymology in linguistics as evidenced by several of the selected essays in From Particular to General Lingusitics. But here Malkiel also moves in several other subfields of linguistics and proves that whatever the subject of discussion is, it is characterized by a tenaciously comprehensive use of evidence.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 3] 1983. xxii, 659 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 July 2011
Published online on 19 July 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Author’s acknowledgments | p. v
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Table of contents | p. vii
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Guide to abbreviations | p. xi
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From particular to general linguistics
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Introduction | p. 3
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A. Genetic linguistics
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Linguistics as a genetic science | p. 23
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B. History of linguistics
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History and histories of linguistics | p. 49
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C. Clues as to dating
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Range of variation as a clue to dating | p. 87
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D. Convergence and divergence
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Factors in the unity of ROMANIA | p. 129
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E. Diffusion
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Lexical borrowing in the Romance languages | p. 137
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F. Language vs. the real world
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Gender, sex, and size, as reflected in the Romance languages | p. 155
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G. The social component of chance
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The social matrix of Paleo-Romance postverbal nouns | p. 179
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H. Lexical independence vs. grammatical constraint
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Each word has a history of its own | p. 217
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I. Multiple causation
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Multi-conditioned sound change and the impact of morphology on phonology | p. 229
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Multiple versus simple causation in linguistic change | p. 251
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The five sources of epenthetic /j/ in western Hispano-Romance: A study in multiple causation | p. 269
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On hierarchizing the components of multiple causation | p. 297
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J. Accentology and phonology
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Conflicting prosodic inferences from Ascoli’s and Darmesteter’s laws? | p. 323
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Etiological studies in Romance diachronic phonology | p. 361
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K. Affixal derivation
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One characteristic derivational suffix of literary Italian: -(t)aggine | p. 399
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The double affixation in Old-French gens-es-or, bel-ez-or, old Provençal bel-az- or | p. 411
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The rise of the nominal augments in Romance: Graeco-Latin and Tuscan clues to the prehistory of Hispano-Romance | p. 419
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L. Etymology
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Primary, secondary, and tertiary etymologies: The three lexical kernels of Hispanic saña, ensañar, sañudo | p. 473
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Etymology and modern linguistics | p. 497
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The interlocking of etymology and historical grammar (exemplified with the analysis of Spanish desleír) | p. 513
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Contacts between BLASPHĒMĀRE and AESTIMĀRE | p. 543
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Supplement | p. 559
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Index of names | p. 593
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Selective index of key terms | p. 607
Cited by (6)
Cited by six other publications
Mo, Ruifeng & Hao-Zhang Xiao
Malkiel, Yakov & Barbara De Marco
Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith & Adam Ledgeway
Bestilleiro Bello, Xosé
Dworkin, Steven N.
Christmann, Hans Helmut
1987. Quelques remarques sur l’histoire de la linguistique. Historiographia Linguistica 14:3 ► pp. 235 ff.
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Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General