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Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography

E.F.K. Koerner †

This volume brings together — in 8 chapters — what has occupied the author during his many years as editor of Historiographia Linguistica. Namely, how the history of linguistics has developed into a major field of scholarly research, and that the discussion of questions of method and epistemology… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 128] 2020. x, 214 pp.

Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution

Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Victor D. Boantza

From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and… read more

[Controversies, 11] 2011. vi, 287 pp.

Chomskyan (R)evolutions

Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee

It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the sources, the nature and the extent of the theoretical changes Chomsky introduced in… read more

[Not in series, 154] 2010. xii, 488 pp. | open access

Anfänge der Arithmetik im alten Orient und bei den Griechen

Hans-Joachim Waschkies

Wie die hier vorgelegten Untersuchung zeigen möchte, bietet die Arithmetik aus Euklids Elementen besonders gute Chancen für einen Erfolg bei der Suche nach Spuren, die das Wissen der Völker des Alten Orients in der griechischen Mathematik hinterlassen hat. Dazu kommt, daß uns eine Reihe von… read more

[Not in series - Grüner, 113] 1972. viii, 386 pp.