Part 1.General and particular issues in the history of linguistics

Chapter 1.Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other?

Giorgio Graffi

Chapter 2.Type or descent? The philosophical, romantic, and biological sources of typology in Soviet linguistics of the 1920s–1940s

Patrick Sériot

Chapter 3.Le futur antérieur des linguistes (fin 19^e–début 20^e siècle)

Dan Savatovsky

Chapter 4.Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener

Maria Paola Tenchini

Serena Cattaruzza

Chapter 5.Walter Benjamin’s idea of language

Frank Vonk

Chapter 6.Eléments pour une histoire de l’interprétation: Considérations méthodologiques, enjeux et perspectives

Elio Ballardini

Chapter 7.“Computational linguistics” as the horizon of projection of early machine translation

Jacqueline Léon

Part 2.Antiquity

Chapter 8.Declension and description: The ways of Sanskrit Grammarians

Émilie Aussant

Chapter 9.Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds: The role of the qualifier

Maria Piera Candotti

Tiziana Pontillo

Chapter 10.The internal order of Sanskrit compounds: A dialogue between Pāṇini and generative grammar

Davide Mocci

Chapter 11.How far are the horizons of descriptive linguistics?

Jean-Luc Chevillard

Chapter 12.Relevance of the work of B. Delbrück on Indo-European syntax (a century after his death)

Massimo Vai

Chapter 13.Three documents bearing on the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America in the age of scientific racism

Margaret Thomas

Chapter 14.Archival resources for the study of the historiography of American linguistics

Frederick J. Newmeyer

Chapter 15.Courses in general linguistics by Roman Jakobson at the École Libre des Hautes Études

Pierre-Yves Testenoire

Chapter 16.Contribution de Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959) à l’analyse des variations phoniques du langage

Enrica Galazzi

Chapter 17.The structuralist quest for general meanings: Mapping the history of monosemy in grammatical semantics

Lorenzo Cigana

Henrik Jørgensen

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