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History of Linguistics
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| Author: | Fay Wouk | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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History of Linguistics
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For Query: Linguist 11.2780
Some time ago I posted a query about readings in the history of linguistics. I received two replies, which I quote in full. John Phillips wrote: The first half of Pieter Seuren's ''Western Linguistics, an historical introduction'' is a chronological account of the subject. It's well written and entertaining and I'm sure you could find some sections in it which would be suitable as readings. Peter T. Daniels wrote: The standard remains, with good reason, R. H. Robins' *Short History of Linguistics* (I believe the 3d ed. was the last). If you need a short overview, there's the chapter in the new Blackwell *Handbook of Linguistics* by your own Lyle Campbell. Here are some suggestions if your students want to do a paper in the area: Unexpectedly fascinating is P. I. Matthews, *Grammatical Theory in the United States, 1925-1950* (or something like that), in the Cambridge Blue series, which shows conclusively how Chomsky grows out of, and is not a reaction against, Bloomfied and his followers. For the period that has attracted the most attention, the treatment that's most objective and satisfactory (because it's by a historian of science and not by a partisan) is Randy Allan Harris, *The Linguistics Wars*. And some of the contributions to Lepschy's History of Linguistics (4 vols. now available in English) are readable, most notably Matthews again, on the Classical grammarians; but most of them aren't (but they're filled with detail). Fay Wouk Institute of Linguistics University of Auckland ccu1@auckland.ac.nz |
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| LL Issue: | 12.809 | |
| Date Posted: | 23-Mar-2001 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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