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Title

Concise history of the language sciences : from the Sumerians to the cognitivists / edited by E.F.K. Koerner and R.E. Asher.

Publication

New York : Pergamon, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Koerner, E. F. K.
• Asher, R. E.

Description

xii, 497 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Uniform Title

Encyclopedia of language and linguistics.

Subject

• Historical linguistics
• Linguistics > History

Note

• Based on articles, all of which have been rev. and updated or modified for this publication, which originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (1994); the chapter on the Hebrew grammatical tradition is new.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• History of Linguistics: The Field / E. F. K. Koerner -- Historiography of Linguistics / E. F. K. Koerner -- Babylonian Grammatical Texts / Gene B. Gragg -- Hebrew Linguistic Tradition / David Tene -- Arabic Linguistic Tradition / Yasir Suleiman -- Chinese Linguistic Tradition / William S.-Y. Wang and R. E. Asher -- Linguistic Thought in Japan / Stefan Kaiser -- History of East Asian Phonetics / Edwin G. Pulleyblank -- Paninian Linguistics / Paul Kiparsky -- Indian Theories of Meaning / Frits Staal -- Ancient Indian Phonetics / Madhav M. Deshpande -- Tamil Linguistic Tradition / Kamil V. Zvelebil -- Classical Linguistics: An Overview / Daniel J. Taylor -- Plato and His Predecessors / Fred W. Householder -- Aristotle and the Stoics on Language / Fred W. Householder -- Dionysius Thrax, the Technai, and Sextus Empiricus / Fred W. Householder -- Varro and Early Latin Language Science / Daniel J. Taylor -- Roman Language Science in the Early Empire / Daniel J. Taylor --
• Apollonius Dyscolus and Herodian / Fred W. Householder -- Roman Art's Grammatica, including Priscian / Even Hovdhaugen -- Early Medieval Grammar / Anneli Luhtala -- Linguistics in the Later Middle Ages / Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall -- Medieval Language Philosophy / Dominik Perler -- Renaissance Linguistics: An Overview / W. Keith Percival -- Renaissance Linguistics in Italy / Brian Richardson -- Renaissance Linguistics in Spain / Juan C. Zamora -- Renaissance Linguistics in France / Douglas A. Kibbee -- Port-Royal Tradition of General Grammar / Garon Wheeler -- Universal Language Schemes and Seventeenth-Century Britain / Joseph L. Subbiondo -- Early Historical and Comparative Studies in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and German-speaking Lands / Kurt R. Jankowsky -- Beginnings of Comparative and Historical Studies in Britain / Michael K. C. MacMahon -- Origin of Language Debate in the Eighteenth Century / Paul B. Salmon -- Discovery of Sanskrit by Europeans / Rosane Rocher --
• History of Comparative Linguistics / N. E. Collinge -- History of Historical Linguistics / N. E. Collinge -- History of Typology and Language Classification / E. F. K. Koerner -- Trends in Twentieth-Century Linguistics: An Overview / John E. Joseph -- Saussurean Tradition in Linguistics / John E. Joseph -- Geneva School, after Saussure / Rene Amacker -- Neolinguistic School in Italy / Jorn Albrecht -- Prague School Phonology / J. M. Y. Simpson -- Prague School Syntax and Semantics / Eva Hajicova -- The Glossematic School of Linguistics / Erik C. Fudge -- Firth and the London School of Linguistics / F. R. Palmer -- Systemic Theory / M. A. K. Halliday -- Guillaumean Linguistics / John Hewson -- Valency Grammar / David J. Allerton -- Functional Grammar / Andre Martinet -- American Structuralism / John G. Fought -- Post-Bloomfieldian Phonology / Erik C. Fudge -- Tagmemics / Linda K. Jones -- Stratificational Grammar / David C. Bennett --
• Evolution of Transformational Grammar / Stephen J. Harlow -- Generative Semantics / James D. McCawley -- Applicational Grammar / Jim Miller -- Case Grammar / John M. Anderson -- Cognitive Grammar / Ronald W. Langacker -- Phonetics: Precursors to Modern Approaches / J. A. Kemp -- History of Phonetic Transcription / J. A. Kemp -- Early Modern Instrumental Phonetics / Hans Gunter Tillmann -- Speech Technology: Historical Antecedents / John J. Ohala -- History of Translation / Louis G. Kelly -- Machine Translation: A Brief History / W. John Hutchins -- Machine Translation in North America / Winfield Scott Bennett.

ISBN

0080425801 (hc)

LCCN

95035131

OCLC

• 32893392
• ocm32893392

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries