Toward a historiography of linguistics : selected essays / E. F. K. Koerner ; foreword by R. H. Robins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koerner, E. F. K.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science ; Series 3, studies in the history of linguistics ; v. 19.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science ; Series 3, studies in the history of linguistics ; v. 19

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Historiography.

Linguistics.

Linguistics--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 222 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

[1007 HA] Amsterdam [postbus 52519] : Benjamins, 1978.

Contents:

Linguistic historiography till 1900

Towards a historiography of linguistics

Four types of history writing in linguistics

The importance of linguistic historiography and the place of history in linguistic science

Hermann Paul and synchronic linguistics

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

A minor figure in 19th-century French linguistics

Animadversions on some recent claims regarding the relationship between Georg von der Gabelentz and Ferdinand de Saussure

Bloomfieldian linguistics and the problem of meaning

Zu Ursprung und Entwicklung des Phonem-Begriffs

1876 as a turning point in the history of linguists

Zu Ursprung und Geschichte der Besternung in der historischen Sprachwissenschaft.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

902720960X

OCLC:

6088576