chapter 1 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS -- chapter 2 TOWARD A HISTORY OF AMERICANIST LINGUISTICS -- chapter 3 ON THE SOURCES OF THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS -- chapter 4 LEONARD BLOOMFIELD AND THE COURS DE LINGUISTIQUE G<U+FFFD>N<U+FFFD>RALE -- chapter 5 American Structuralist Linguistics and the<U+FFFD>Problem of Meaning -- chapter 6 ON THE RISE AND FALL OF GENERATIVE SEMANTICS -- chapter 7 NOAM CHOMSKY'S READINGS OF SAUSSURE AFTER 1961 -- chapter 8 THE CHOMSKYAN REVOLUTION AND ITS HISTORIOGRAPHY -- chapter 9 ON THE ORIGINS OF MORPHOPHONEMICS IN AMERICAN LINGUISTICS -- chapter 10 WILLIAM LABOV AND THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN AMERICA -- chapter IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS -- chapter 28 5 Index of Subjects and Terms -- chapter INDEX OF BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES -- chapter About the author.