George Wolf

List of John Benjamins publications in which George Wolf is involved.

Title

Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics

Edited by George Wolf and Nigel Love

Roy Harris’s thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148] 1997. xxviii, 344 pp.

Articles

Wolf, George 2000 Are we all saussureans now? Historiographia Linguistica 27:2/3, pp. 359–377 | Article

This paper addresses the question whether all of the most important linguistic theories of the 20th century are Saussurean. Beginning with Engler’s observation that there are so many interpretive possibilities in the Saussurean material which has appeared that it is even possible for opposing… read more

Wolf, George 1999 9. A Glance at the History of Linguistics: Saussure and historical-comparativism The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 129–138 | Article

Wolf, George 1992 Histoire de la linguistique de Sumer à Saussure. By Bertil Malmberg Historiographia Linguistica 19:1, pp. 169–176 | Review