Studies in the history of linguistics : traditions and paradigms / edited by Dell Hymes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hymes, Dell H., editor.

Series:

Indiana University studies in the history and theory of linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--History.

Linguistics.

History.

Linguistics--history.

Medical Subjects:

Linguistics--history.

Genre:

History.

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 519 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1974]

Contents:

Introduction: Traditions and paradigms / Dell Hymes

1. Contrastive beginnings: Very ancient linguistics: Babylonian grammatical texts / Thorkild Jacobsen

The origin and development of linguistics in India / J.F. Staal

2. Traditions: the nature of language and of grammar: Toward a history of linguistics in the Middle Ages, 1100-1450 / G.L. Bursill-Hall

The tradition of Condillac: the problem of the origin of language in the eighteenth century and the debate in the Berlin Academy before Herder / Hans Aarsleff

The dithyramb to the verb in eighteenth and nineteenth century linguistics / Edward Stankiewicz

Vicissitudes of paradigms / Pieter A. Verburg

3. First paradigm : comparison and explanation of change: The Indo-European Hypothesis in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / George J. Metcalf

Some eighteenth century antecedents of nineteenth century linguistics: the discovery of Finno-Ugrian / János Gulya

The foundation of comparative linguistics: revolution or continuation? / Paul Diderichsen

Rask's view of linguistic development and phonetic correspondences / W. Keith Percival

Friedrich Diez's debt to pre-1800 linguistics / Yakov Malkiel

From paleogrammarians to neogrammarians / Paul Kiparsky

Fallacies in the history of linguistics: notes on the appraisal of the nineteenth century / Henry M. Hoenigswald

4. The slow growth of grammatical adequacy: Sixteenth and seventeenth century grammars / John Howland Rowe

Humboldt's description of the Javanese verb / W. Keith Percival

On Bonaparte and the neogrammarians as field workers / Eric P. Hamp

Phonemics in the nineteenth century, 1876-1900 / Rulon Wells

The Boas Plan for the study of American Indian languages / George W. Stocking, Jr.

5. Complementary perspectives: The history of science and the history of linguistics / John C. Greene

Notes on the sociology of knowledge and linguistics / Kurt H. Wolff and Barrie Thorne

Some comments on history as a moral discipline: "transcending 'textbook' chronicles and apologetics" / George W. Stocking, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Hymes, Dell H. Studies in the history of linguistics: traditions and paradigms.

ISBN:

0253355591

9780253355591

OCLC:

902311