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Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 128] 2020
► pp. 37–48

Chapter 2
Pour une historiographie engagée; or where historians of linguistics could still do better

Article outline
  • 1.The issues
  • 2.The challenge
  • 3.Continuing methodological and philosophical disagreements
  • 4.Observations on the development of history-writing in linguistics
  • 5.Some possible remedies and changes in direction
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 August 2020
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