Practicing Linguistic Historiography

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E.F.K. Koerner †

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This collection contains 24 articles on the history of linguistics written between 1978 and 1988, divided into three parts: 1. Methods and Models in Linguistic Historiography 2. Tradition and Transmission of Linguistic Notions 3. Schools and Scholars in the History of Linguistics Three articles are written in German, two in French and one in Italian. The remaining eighteen articles are in English.

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 50] 1989. xiv, 455 pp.

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Table of Contents

Preface & Acknowledgements | p. vii

Part I: Methods and Models in Linguistic Historiography

1. On ‘Unrewriting the History of Linguistics’ | p. 3

2. Das Problem der Metasprache in der Sprachwissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung | p. 13

3. On the Problem of ‘Influence’ in Linguistic Historiography | p. 31

4. Models in Linguistic Historiography | p. 47

5. On Practicing Linguistic Historiography | p. 61

6. Continuities and Discontinuities in the History of Linguistics | p. 69

7. The Neogrammarian Doctrine: Breakthrough or extension of the Schleicherian paradigm: A problem in linguistic historiography | p. 79

8. The Chomskyan ‘Revolution’ and Its Historiography: Observations of a bystander | p. 101

Part II: Tradition and Transmission of Linguistic Notions

9. Observations on the Sources, Transmission, and Meaning of ‘Indo-European’ and Related Terms in the Development of Linguistics | p. 149

10. Sulla origine e storia dell'asterisco nella linguistica storica: Un cenno storiografico | p. 179

11. August Schleicher and the Tree Idea in Comparative Linguistics | p. 185

12. Positivism in 19th and 20th Century Linguistics | p. 191

13. Schleichers Einfluß auf Haeckel: Schlaglichter auf die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit zwischen linguistischen und biologischen Theorien im 19. Jahrhundert | p. 211

14. On the Historical Roots of the Philology vs Linguistics Controversy | p. 233

15. Pilot and Pirate Disciplines in the Development of Linguistic Science | p. 245

16. Sur l'origine du concept et du terme de ‘synchronique’ en linguistique | p. 257

Part III: Schools and Scholars in the History of Linguistics

17. Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Historical-Comparative Grammar | p. 269

18. Franz Bopp (1791-1867): Biographische Skizze | p. 291

19. Jacob Grimm's Place in the Foundation of Linguistics as a Science | p. 303

20. August Schleicher and Linguistic Science in the Second Half of the 19th Century | p. 325

21. Mikołaj Kruszewski's Contribution to General Linguistic Theory | p. 377

22. Antoine Meillet, Saussure et la linguistique générale: Une question d”influence' | p. 401

23. Holger Pedersen (1867-1953): A sketch of his life and work | p. 417

24. Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique générale | p. 435

Index of Authors | p. 445

List of illustrations and portraits

One of Schleicher's two family trees of 1853 | p. 190, 219

Title page of Schleicher's ‘Offenes Sendschreiben an … Häckel’ (1863) | p. 210

One of Ernst Haeckel's many genealogical trees of 1866 | p. 220

Portrait of Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) | p. 268

Portrait of Franz Bopp (1791-1867) | p. 298

Portrait of August Schleicher (1821-1868) | p. 324

Portrait of Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851-1887) | p. 376

Portrait of Antoine Meillet (1866-1936) | p. 400

Portrait of Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) | p. 416

Portrait of Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) | p. 434

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History of linguistics

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