Uniformitarianism in Linguistics

• Acknowledgments | p. vi
• Introduction | p. ix
• I. Uniformitarianism in the Palaetiological Sciences | p. 1
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 The Development of Uniformitarianism in Geology
• 1.3 Uniformitarianism and Biological Development
• 1.4 Uniformitarianism and the Problem of Human Origins
• 1.5 Uniformitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Ethnology
• 1.6 The Introduction of Uniformitarianism into Linguistics
• 1.7 Conclusion
• Notes
• II. The Rise of Uniformitarianism in Linguistics | p. 31
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Uniformitarianism and Scientific Objectivity
• 2.3 The Paradigm Shift from Organism to Mechanism
• 2.4 Organicist and Progressionist Theories of Language
• 2.5 Uniformitarianism, Induction, and Causality
• 2.6 Inductive Procedure in Pre-Uniformitarian Linguistics
• 2.7 Linguistics: Physical or Moral Science?
• 2.8 Max Müller (1823-1900) and Uniformitarian Procedure
• 2.9 Lazarus Geiger (1829-1870)
• 2.10 Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903)
• 2.11 Archibald Henry Sayce (1846-1933)
• 2.12 Friedrich Techmer (1843-1891)
• 2.13 Conclusion
• Notes
• III. The Uniformitarian Basis of Neogrammarian Linguistics | p. 63
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Uniformitarian Ideas in the Linguistic Theory of Heymann Steinthal (1823-1899)
• 3.3 Uniformitarianism in the Works of Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886)
• 3.4 William Dwight Whitney's (1827-1894) Uniformitarian Linguistics
• 3.5 The Neogrammarian Approach to the Study of Speech Errors
• 3.6 Karl Brugmann's (1849-1919) Uniformitarian Explanation of the Origin of Noun Gender
• 3.7 Conclusion
• Notes
• Conclusion | p. 109
• Index of Names | p. 125
• Index of Subjects | p. 129

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