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Prehistory, History and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory
Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi I
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This collection of papers deals primarily with topics in general linguistics, including history of linguistic science. The volume is divided in 5 parts: I. Origin and Prehistory of Language, II. Historiography of Linguistics, III. Phonology and Phonetic Change, IV. Morphology and Syntax, and V. Socio-Neurolinguistics and Multilingualism.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 64] 1992. x, 407 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 October 2011
Published online on 10 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Dedication | pp. v–vi
- preface | pp. vii–viii
- Table of contents
- I. Origin and prehistory of language
- 1. Die sprache im Schöpfungsbericht der biblischen genesisHans-Martin Gauger | p. 3
- 2. Wurzeln, Etyma und wörter. Wege und Irrwege auf der suche nach ursprachen und sprachursprungHelmut Gipper | p. 15
- 3. Some thoughts on the prehistory of languageRobert H. Robins | p. 39
- 4. Problemi di preistoria e protostoria linguistica dell’EurasiaDomenico Silvestri | p. 51
- II. Historiography of linguistics
- 1. The basic principles of modern sentence theory in the works of a transylvanian polymath in the 19th centuryJános Balázs | p. 63
- 2. Toward a history of Americanist linguistic. With special reference to the study of Algonquian languagesE.F.K. Koerner | p. 73
- 3. Notes on Saussure as an Indo-Europeanist and phoneticistAldo Luigi Prosdocimi and Maria Pia Marchese | p. 89
- 4.“… without a philospher we won’t get anywhere”, an unpublished letter by N.S. Trubetskoy to Dmitrij ČiževskijJindřich Toman | p. 113
- III. Phonology and phonetic change
- 1. Traits distinctifs dynamiquesIvan Fónagy | p. 133
- 2. Marginalien zum problem der relativen chronologieRoberto Gusmani | p. 143
- 3. Isoglosses: Artifactual or real?Mieko Ogura and William S-Y. Wang | p. 153
- 4. Theories of rule application in generative phonologyRobert M. Vago | p. 183
- IV. Morphology and syntax
- 1. Remarks on passive morphologyPaul Kent Andersen | p. 207
- 2. Topikalisierungen im altpersischenMichael Back | p. 241
- 3. Textlinguistische aspekte der hauptsatz/nebensatz-Unterscheidung des DeutschenMichael Schecker | p. 269
- 4. Towards the problem of the wordVladimir A. Zvegintsev | p. 331
- V. Socio-neurolinguistics and multilingualism
- 1. Studies on the “speechless man”: the case of speech automatismsGerhard Blanken, Jürgen Dittmann and Claus-W. Wallesch | p. 339
- 2. Multilingualismus und sprachliche störungen. Physiologische, aphasiologische und linguistische aspekteBela Brogyanyi | p. 359
- 3. The interface of sociolinguistics and neurolinguistics: toward a theory of socio-neurolinguisticsFred C.C. Peng | p. 379
- Index of authors | pp. 399–414
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Cited by three other publications
Blanc, Alain & Charles de Lamberterie
Koerner, Konrad & Kofi K. Saah
1992. Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften. Historiographia Linguistica 19:1 ► pp. 199 ff.
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