Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 18:2/3 (1991) ► pp.369–375
Book review
Michel Bréal: The Beginnings of Semantics. Edited and translated by George Wolf
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Published online: 1 January 1991
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.18.2-3.14ner
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.18.2-3.14ner
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Darmesteter, Arsène. 1886. La Vie des mots étudiée dans leurs significations. Paris: Delagrave. (New ed., 1887; 3rd ed., 1889; 10th ed., 1910.)
Delesalle, Simone. 1987. “Vie des mots et sciences des significations: Arsène Darmesteter et Michel Bréal”. DRLAV: Revue de linguistique Nos.36/371.265–314.
. 1989. “L’Essai de sémantique de Bréal: Du ‘transformisme’ à la diachronie”. La Linguistique génétique: Histoire et théories ed. by André Joly, 43–55. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille III.
Delesalle, Simone & Jean-Claude Chevalier, eds. 1986. La Linquistique, la grammaire et l’école, 1750–1914. Paris: Armand Colin.
Firth, John Rupert. 1935. “The Technique of Semantics”. Transactions of the Philological Society 1935.36–72. (Repr. in Firth, Papers in Linguistics 1934–1951, 7–33. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1957.)
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De la grammaire comparée à la sémantique: Textes de Michel Bréal publiés entre 1864 et 1898. Introduction, commentaires et bibliographie par Piet Desmet et Pierre Swiggers. Historiographia Linguistica 23:3 ► pp. 435 ff.
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