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The Oxford handbook of the history of linguistics / edited by Keith Allan.

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In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore linguistic traditions in east and west, chronicle centuries of explanatio...

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Other Authors: Allan, Keith, 1943-
Other title:History of linguistics.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
Subjects:
Linguistics > History.
Australian.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.The Origins and the Evolution of Language / Salikoko S. Mufwene
  • 2.The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics / Peter T. Daniels
  • 3.History of the Study of Gesture / Adam Kendon
  • 4.The History of Sign Language Linguistics / Bencie Woll
  • 5.Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics / Michael K. C. MacMahon
  • 6.From IPA to Praat and Beyond / Deborah Loakes
  • 7.Nineteenth-Century Study of Sound Change from Rask to Saussure / Kate Burridge
  • 8.Discoverers of the Phoneme / Harry van der Hulst
  • 9.A History of Sound Symbolism / Margaret Magnus
  • 10.East Asian Linguistics / Karen Steffen Chung
  • 11.Linguistics in India / Peter M. Scharf
  • 12.From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic / Edward Lipinski
  • 13.From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's Legacy to Grammar / David Blank
  • 14.Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century / Anneli Luhtala
  • 15.Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language / Andrew Linn
  • Contents note continued: 16.Word-Based Morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP (Word and Paradigm Models) / James P. Blevins
  • 17.General or Universal Grammar from Plato to Chomsky / Jaap Maat
  • 18.American Descriptivism (Ě€Structuralism') / James P. Blevins
  • 19.Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: A Sketch / Robert Freidin
  • 20.European Linguistics since Saussure / Giorgio Graffi
  • 21.Functional and Cognitive Grammars / Anna Siewierska
  • 22.Lexicography from Earliest Times to the Present / Patrick Hanks
  • 23.The Logico-philosophical Tradition / Pieter A. M. Seuren
  • 24.Lexical Semantics from Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics / Dirk Geeraerts
  • 25.Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning / Dirk Geeraerts
  • 26.A Brief Sketch of the Historic Development of Pragmatics / Jacob L. Mey
  • 27.Meaning in Texts and Contexts / Malia Thomas
  • Contents note continued: 28.Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics since the Eighteenth Century / Kurt R. Jankowsky
  • 29.Language, Culture, and Society / Ana Deumert
  • 30.Language, the Mind, and the Brain / Alan Garnham
  • 31.Translation: The Intertranslatability of Languages; Translation and Language Teaching / Kirsten Malmkjaer
  • 32.Computational Linguistics / Graeme Hirst
  • 33.The History of Corpus Linguistics / Andrew Hardie
  • 34.Philosophy of Linguistics / Esa Itkonen.

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