296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China and Medieval Islam, and especially in India, which was to have a profound effect on European and American linguistics from... Read more
Preface to previous editions
1. Introduction
2. Greece
3. Rome
4. The Middle Ages
5. The Renaissance and after
6. The eve of modern times
7. Comparative and historical linguistics in the nineteenth century
8. Linguistics in the twentieth-century: first period
9. Linguistics in the twentieth century: second period.
Index
1. Introduction
2. Greece
3. Rome
4. The Middle Ages
5. The Renaissance and after
6. The eve of modern times
7. Comparative and historical linguistics in the nineteenth century
8. Linguistics in the twentieth-century: first period
9. Linguistics in the twentieth century: second period.
Index
Biography
R.H. Robins
