Toward a history of American linguistics / E.F.K. Koerner
- Author
- Koerner, E. F. K.
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 315 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prefatory Observations; The Historiography of American Linguistics; Toward a History of Americanist Linguistics; On the Sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'; Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique generale; American Structuralist Linguistics and the'Problem of Meaning'; On the Rise and Fall of Generative Semantics; Noam Chomsky's Readings of Saussure after 1961; The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography; On the Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics; William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America.
- Summary
- A comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics which addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0203361857 (electronic bk.)
9780203361856 (electronic bk.)
9786610047093
661004709X
1134495080
9781134495085
0203378636
9780203378632
1280047097
9781280047091
9780415300605
0415300606
0415300606 (Cloth) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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