T. Craig Christy

List of John Benjamins publications in which T. Craig Christy is involved.

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Uniformitarianism in Linguistics

T. Craig Christy

This study examines specific implications of the considerable overlap in methodology and theory of 19th-century geology and philology. Recognition of this overlap is indispensable to a complete understanding of philology’s development into the more empirical science of linguistics, especially as… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 31] 1983. xiv, 139 pp.

Christy, T. Craig 2016 The relation of gesture to thought and language: From language origin to cognitive science History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014, Assunção, Carlos, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler (eds.), pp. 43–52 | Article

The relationship between gesture and language has typically been theorized in terms of gesture preceding language along a continuum of evolving symbolization. Recent research in cognitive science and allied fields suggests that, from the beginning, gesture has figured constitutively, along with… read more

Christy, T. Craig 2013 Vygotsky, Cognitive Development and Language: New perspectives on the nature of grammaticalization Historiographia Linguistica 40:1/2, pp. 199–227 | Article

Lev Vygotsky’s (1896–1934) views of the genesis of language and its relation to thought, illustrated here by his account of the origin of the pointing gesture, can be seen as anticipating current research in socially constituted cognition, pragmatics, developmental psychology and… read more

Christy, T. Craig 2011 The ‘floating’ linguistic sign History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 25–34 | Article

The image of floating, fluctua­tion, waves, and displacement recurs with surpris­ing con­sistency in key descrip­tions of the linguistic sign. Its promi­nence in the theoretical pronouncements of linguists (Michel Bréal, Ferdi­nand de Saussure, Antoine Meillet, Ken­neth Pike) and sociologists… read more

Christy, T. Craig 2010 The evolution of meaning and grammar: Chomskyan theory and the evidence from grammaticalization Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 353–376 | Article

Central to Chomskyan language theory, often seen as a Kuhnian revolution, is the claim that universal grammar (UG) is innate and that it comprises the principles and parameters which constitute and constrain possible human language grammars. In this model, grammar is essentially a programmed fait… read more

Christy, T. Craig 2009 Aux origines d’une science allemande de la culture: Linguistique et psychologie des peuples chez Heymann Steinthal. By Céline Trautmann-Waller Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 452–457 | Review

Christy, T. Craig 2007 Steinthal and the limits of etymology: The special case of Chinese History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 252–261 | Article

Chinese character writing, based only partially on phonetic considerations, presents a challenge to the seemingly straightforward relationship between the written record and etymology, where graphemic recordings of phonetic forms (words) in a number of languages are compared to determine whether… read more

Christy, T. Craig 2007 The Presence of Absence in Saussure's Linguistic Theory History of Linguistics 2002: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 27-30 August 2002, São Paulo - Campinas, Guimarães, Eduardo and Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros (eds.), pp. 133–140 | Article

Christy, T. Craig 2007 William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language. By Stephen G. Alter Historiographia Linguistica 34:1, pp. 109–116 | Review

Christy, T. Craig 2007 Meillet Aujourd’hui. Edited by Gabriel Bergounioux and Charles de Lamberterie Historiographia Linguistica 34:2/3, pp. 387–402 | Review

Christy, T. Craig 2004 Anthropologie im Sprachdenken des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Berliner Preisfrage nach dem Ursprung der Sprache (1771). By Cordula Neis Historiographia Linguistica 31:1, pp. 164–169 | Review

Christy, T. Craig 2003 Tooke’s ‘abbreviation’ and Bréal’s ‘latent ideas’: A new perspective on grammaticalization History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14–19 September 1999, Fontenay-St.Cloud, Auroux, Sylvian (ed.), pp. 237–246 | Article

Christy, T. Craig 1999 Saussure's 'anagrams': Blunder or paralanguage? History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 299–306 | Chapter

Christy, T. Craig 1995 From Concept to Word: The Homophonic Principle and Steinthal's Theory of Writing History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 199–208 | Article

Christy, T. Craig 1992 Geology and the Science of Language: Metaphors and Models Language and Earth: Elective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology, Naumann, Bernd, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer (eds.), pp. 79–89 | Article

Christy, T. Craig 1992 Salomon Strieker's Motor Theory of Language Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 227–236 | Article

Christy, T. Craig 1990 Steinthal's Illusion Theory of Mythology History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 647–652 | Chapter

Christy, T. Craig 1987 Steinthal and the Development of Linguistic Science: The convergence of psychology and linguistics Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 491–500 | Article

Christy, T. Craig 1980 Uniformitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics: Implications for a reassessment of the neogrammarian sound-law doctrine Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 249–256 | Article