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1st Edition

Toward a History of American Linguistics

By E.F.K. Koerner Copyright 2002
326 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge
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Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics and also addresses contemporary debates and... Read more
1. The Historiography of American Linguistics2. Toward a History of Americanist Linguistics3. On the Sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'4. Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de Linguistique générale5. American Structuralist Linguistics and the 'Problem of Meaning'6. On the Rise and Fall of Generative Semantics7. Noam Chomsky's Readings of Saussure from 19618. The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography9. On the Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics10. William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in AmericaIn Lieu of a Conclusion: On the Importance of the History of Linguistics

Biography

E.F.K. Koerner is on the faculty at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, Germany.

'Koerner's various essays assemble a considerable record of historiographic scholarship on American linguistics by American linguists. There are analytic gems as well as bibliographic detail' - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

' ... readers will find many useful and informative comments to which no doubt they will wish to refer in future ... Koerner makes good use here of modern studiesm and makes helpful comments on the history of so-called 'missionary linguistics', and on many figures who still deserve to be studied in greater detail ... ' - Linguistics

'This book is informative and suggestive in many ways.' - The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics

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