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ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE & -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Table of contents -- PART I. PROGRAMMATIC PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS -- CHAPTER 1. ON THE PLACE OF LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY WITHIN THE SCIENCES OF LANGUAGE, AGAIN -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. The uses of the history of a field for the discipline in general -- 2.1 The introduction to the field of linguistics through its history -- 2.2 Historical knowledge of the subject as part of a scientist's education -- 2.3 Historical knowledge as a means of evaluating new hypotheses -- 2.4 Historical knowledge as leading to moderation in linguistic theory -- 2.5 Historical knowledge as furthering unity within a complex subject -- 3. What kind of History of Linguistics? -- 4. Remaining challenges in linguistic historiography -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. IDEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INTELLECTUALS -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. On defining 'ideology' -- 3. Has there been a National-Socialist linguistics? -- 4. Present-day instances of linguistic ideology and public politics -- 5. Explicating 'Resonanzbedarf' -- 6. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. MYTHS IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS THE CASE OF THE GOALS OF GEORG WENKER'S DIALECTOLOGY -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Myth-building, a difficult subject for the historian to investigate -- 3. The genesis of the myth concerning Wenker's work -- 3.1 Sketching the historical context -- 3.2 Wrede's career and interpretation of Wenker's work -- 3.3 The transmission of the myth concerning Wenker's intentions -- 4. Wenker's own assessment of his work -- 4.1 A few remarks on Wenker's academic career -- 4.2 The importance of context and chronology in linguistic historiography -- 4.3 Wenker's self-assessment of his work.
5. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. ON 'INFLUENCE' IN LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY MORPHOPHONEMICS IN AMERICAN STRUCTURALISM -- 1. Summary statement -- 2. The issue of 'influence' in linguistic historiography -- 3. History-writing MIT style -- 3.1 Chomsky's affirmations concerning Bloomfield (1939) -- 4. A return to the sources of morphophonemics -- 4.1 The idea of ordered rules in Bloomfield -- 4.2 The idea of ordered rules in Harris -- 4.3 Suggested lines of transmission: Bloomfield-> -- Harris-> -- Chomsky -- 4.4 Some methodological statements in Chomsky (1951) -- 5. Tentative conclusions -- REFERENCES -- PART II. STUDIES IN LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 5. MISSIONARY LINGUISTICS IN THE AMERICAS THE 'HEROIC PERIOD' -- 1. Introductory observations -- 2. General considerations -- 3. Missionary linguistics of the Americas -- 3.1 Missionary linguistics in Latin America -- 3.2 Missionary linguistics in the remaining Latin American areas -- 4. Missionary linguistics in America north of Mexico -- 4.1 The French tradition -- 4.2 The English tradition -- 5. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. THE PLACE OF GEOLOGY IN W. D. WHITNEY'S LINGUISTIC ARGUMENT -- 1. Introductory observations -- 2. Whitney and the geological sciences -- 2.1 Whitney and the natural sciences -- 2.2 The relation between linguistics and geology in terms of Whitney' sphilosophy of science -- 2.3 The concept of change in linguistics and geology -- 3. Whitney's importance in the history of linguistic theory -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF POLISH LINGUISTICS -- 1. Introductory observations -- 2. Polish history-writing in linguistics -- 3. Summarizing the contributions to Koerner & -- Szwedek (2001) -- 4. Concluding remarks -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 8. THREE SAUSSURES - ONE 'STRUCTURALIST' A VANT LA LETTRE.
1. Introductory observations -- 2. Three or more Saussures? -- 3. The search for language as a system 'où tout se tient' in Saussure -- 4. Attributions of 'où tout se tient' to Saussure -- 4.1 Early attributions -- 4.2 Later ascriptions -- 5. On the heels of the sources of 'où tout se tient' -- 5.1 The circuitous history of 'où tout se tient' -- 5.2 Getting closer to the sources of 'où tout se tient' -- 6. The place of 'system' in Saussure 's linguistic thought -- 7. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- PART III. SKETCHES HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL -- CHAPTER 9. R. H.ROBINS, J. R. FIRTH, AND LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 0. Introductory remarks -- 1. Robins as the father of the history of linguistics? -- 2. Firth as the grandfather of the history of linguistics in Britain -- 3. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. MY EDINBURGH CONNECTIONS, 1964-PRESENT -- 0. Introductory remarks -- 1. Student days at Edinburgh University, 1964-1965 -- 2. Interlude 1968-1976 -- 3. Edinburgh, the glorious summer of 1977 -- 4. 1988-1995 -- 5. The story continues -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. REMARKS CONCERNING THE PRE-HISTORY OF THE HENRY SWEET SOCIETY -- 1. The occasion for the present account -- 2. On launching societies for the history of linguistics -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. NOTES ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES -- 1. Launching a learned society for historians of linguistics -- 2. On founding scholarly societies -- 3. What's in the name? -- 4. Some observations on other scholarly societies -- PART IV. ZELLIG S. HARRIS: A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1932-2002 -- ZELLIG SABBETTAI HARRISA COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS, 1932-2002 -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Bibliography -- 3. Secondary sources -- INDEX OF BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS, TERMS & -- LANGUAGES.
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