The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences [[electronic resource] ] : Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 2: Methodological perspectives and applications

• Autore: Embleton Sheila M
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 pages)
• Disciplina: 410/.9/09034
• Soggetto topico: Comparative linguistics; Historical linguistics; Linguistics -- History -- 19th century; Linguistics -- History -- 20th century; Linguistics -- Methodology
• Altri autori: JosephJohn Earl NiedereheHans-Josef <1937->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE SCIENCES VOLUME 2; Editorial page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Problems of Structuralist Beginnings (and Endings); Bibliography of writings by E. F. K. Koerner, 1968-1999; PART IV. Methodological Perspectives; CHAPTER 21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield's Central Algonquian, and Sapir's Distant Genetic Relationships; CHAPTER 22. The Need for Phonetically Accurate Notation in the General Progress of Linguistics; CHAPTER 23. The Autonomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyond; CHAPTER 24. On the Notion of Zero ; CHAPTER 25. 'God's Truth' and Structuralism: A new look at an old controversy CHAPTER 26. From Ordered Rules to Ranked Constraints; PART V. Indo-European Linguistics; CHAPTER 27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-European; CHAPTER 28. Typology and Reconstruction: New trends in comparative historical and diachronic linguistics; CHAPTER 29. Typology and Diachrony of the Middle Voice; CHAPTER 30. Indo-European Numerals Since Szemerényi; CHAPTER 31. Berthold Delbrück and his Contemporaries on 'Tempora' in Sanskrit; PART VI. Latin and Comparative Romance Linguistics ; CHAPTER 32. Observations on Two Recently Discovered Latin Inscriptions CHAPTER 33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance Languages; CHAPTER 33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance Languages; CHAPTER 34. Romance Historical Morphology and Empty Affixes; CHAPTER 35. Markedness and Morphosyntactic Change Revisited: The case of Romance past participle agreement; CHAPTER 36. Romanian and the Balkans: Some comparative perspectives; PART VII. Germanic, Caucasian, and Asian Linguistics ; CHAPTER 37. Toward "a Complete Analysis of the Residues"CHAPTER 38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic Text; CHAPTER 39. The Compound Gerund in Early Modern English; CHAPTER 40. Gender Affixes in Tsez: Synchrony and diachrony; CHAPTER 41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old Korean; CHAPTER 42. The Role of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work; Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria; Name Index; Subject Index; Contents of Volume One
• Sommario/riassunto: Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work o
• Titolo autorizzato: The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences
• ISBN: 1-282-16268-3; 9786612162688; 90-272-9842-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782551403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II