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The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences
Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner
Volume 2: Methodological perspectives and applications
Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work outside these traditional areas. These 22 studies, honouring the founder of Diachronica and other publication ventures that have helped revitalize historical enquiry in recent decades, include examinations of Indo-European methodology and the reconstructions carried out by Bloomfield and Sapir; the search for relatives of Indo-European; comparative, structural and sociolinguistic analyses of the history of the Romance languages; regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut; and the synchrony and diachrony of gender affixes in Tsez.
[Not in series, EMLS 2] 1999. lvi, 335 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings)Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe | p. ix
- IV. Methodological Perspectives
- 21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s Distant Genetic RelationshipsRegna Darnell | p. 3
- 22. The Need for Phonetically Accurate Notation in the General Progress of LinguiticsSaul Levin | p. 17
- 23. The Autonomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyondRanko Bugarski | p. 29
- 24. On the Notion of ZeroE. Wyn Roberts | p. 41
- 25. ‘God’s Truth’ and Sturcturalism: A new look at an old controversyGary D. Prideaux | p. 67
- 26. From Ordered Rules to Ranked ConstraintsJohn T. Jensen | p. 81
- V. Indo-European Linguistics
- 27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-EuropeanAllan R. Bomhard | p. 101
- 28. Typolgy and Reconstruction: New trends in comparative historical and diachronic linguisticsThomas V. Gamkrelidze | p. 109
- 29. Typology and Diachrony of the Middle VoiceHelena Kurzová | p. 115
- 30. Indo-European Numerals Since SzemerényiCarol F. Justus | p. 131
- 31. Berthold Delbrück and his Contemporaries on ‘Tempora’ in SanskritVit Bubenik | p. 153
- 32. Observations on Two Recently Discovered Latin InscriptionsPhilip Baldi | p. 165
- 33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance LanguagesRoger Wright | p. 175
- 34. Romance Historical Morphology and Empty AffixesMartin Maiden | p. 189
- 35. Markedness and Morphosyntactic Change Revisited: The case of Romance past participle agreementJohn Charles Smith | p. 203
- 36. Romanian and the Balkans: Some comparative perspectivesBrian D. Joseph | p. 217
- VII. Germanic, Caucasian and Asian Linguistics
- 37. Toward “a Complete Analysis of the Residues”: On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlautDavid J. Holsinger and Joseph C. Salmons | p. 239
- 38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic TextRobert A. Hall | p. 255
- 39. The Compound Gerund in Early Modern EnglishMatsuji Tajima | p. 265
- 40. Gender Affixes in Tsez: Synchrony and diachronyBernard Comrie | p. 279
- 41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old KoreanAlexander Vovin | p. 289
- 42. The Rôle of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work: A case studyPaul J. Sidwell | p. 301
- Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria | pp. 313–314
- Name Index | pp. 315–320
- Subject Index | pp. 321–332
- Contents of Volume One | pp. 333–335
“These two volumes honor a scholar, editor and organizer whose work during the past 30 years has a unique impact on the field of linguistics in general and on the development and establishment of the history of the language sciences as a field of study in its own rights.
[...] some authors have achieved a 'Koernerian fusion' by incorporating the history of their fields in their respective arguments in historical linguistics, thereby demonstrating the value, importance and relevance of the history of the language sciences to contemporary issues in linguistics
”Michael Mackert, German-English Language Services
“Those desiring an international sampling of current studies on the history of linguistics for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries should consult these well-edited volumes.”
Julia S. Falk in Language
“There is so much more of interest in these volumes, all worthy of careful reading and consideration.”
Paul Sidwell, Australian National University, Australia
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