In:Practicing Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 50] 1989
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Table of contents
Preface & Acknowledgementsvii
Part I: Methods and Models in Linguistic Historiography
1. On ‘Unrewriting the History of Linguistics’3
2. Das Problem der Metasprache in der Sprachwissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung13
3. On the Problem of ‘Influence’ in Linguistic Historiography31
4. Models in Linguistic Historiography47
5. On Practicing Linguistic Historiography61
6. Continuities and Discontinuities in the History of Linguistics69
7. The Neogrammarian Doctrine: Breakthrough or extension of the Schleicherian paradigm: A problem in linguistic historiography79
8. The Chomskyan ‘Revolution’ and Its Historiography: Observations of a bystander101
Part II: Tradition and Transmission of Linguistic Notions
9. Observations on the Sources, Transmission, and Meaning of ‘Indo-European’ and Related Terms in the Development of Linguistics149
10. Sulla origine e storia dell'asterisco nella linguistica storica: Un cenno storiografico179
11. August Schleicher and the Tree Idea in Comparative Linguistics185
12. Positivism in 19th and 20th Century Linguistics191
13. Schleichers Einfluß auf Haeckel: Schlaglichter auf die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit zwischen linguistischen und biologischen Theorien im 19. Jahrhundert211
14. On the Historical Roots of the Philology vs Linguistics Controversy233
15. Pilot and Pirate Disciplines in the Development of Linguistic Science245
16. Sur l'origine du concept et du terme de ‘synchronique’ en linguistique257
Part III: Schools and Scholars in the History of Linguistics
17. Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Historical-Comparative Grammar269
18. Franz Bopp (1791-1867): Biographische Skizze291
19. Jacob Grimm's Place in the Foundation of Linguistics as a Science303
20. August Schleicher and Linguistic Science in the Second Half of the 19th Century325
21. Mikołaj Kruszewski's Contribution to General Linguistic Theory377
22. Antoine Meillet, Saussure et la linguistique générale: Une question d”influence'401
23. Holger Pedersen (1867-1953): A sketch of his life and work417
24. Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique générale435
Index of Authors445
List of illustrations and portraits
One of Schleicher's two family trees of 1853190, 219
Title page of Schleicher's ‘Offenes Sendschreiben an … Häckel’ (1863)210
One of Ernst Haeckel's many genealogical trees of 1866220
Portrait of Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)268
Portrait of Franz Bopp (1791-1867)298
Portrait of August Schleicher (1821-1868)324
Portrait of Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851-1887)376
Portrait of Antoine Meillet (1866-1936)400
Portrait of Holger Pedersen (1867-1953)416
Portrait of Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949)434
