Toward a historiography of linguistics
Subtitle: selected essays
By: E. F. K. Koerner ; foreword by R. H. Robins.
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science : Series 3, Studies in the history of linguistics ;; v. 19; Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.; v. 19.
Publisher: Benjamins
Published: 1978
Place of publication: [1007 HA] Amsterdam [postbus 52519]
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Linguistics -- Historiography.; Linguistics -- History.
Description: Presents a biography on the life of eighteenth-century German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, and examines his early musical career, study under Haydn, his important compositions, and how he did not let his deafness interfere with his music.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Linguistic historiography till 1900.; title: Towards a historiography of linguistics.; title: Four types of history writing in linguistics.; title: The importance of linguistic historiography and the place of history in linguistic science.; title: Hermann Paul and synchronic linguistics.; title: Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.; title: A minor figure in 19th-century French linguistics.; title: Animadversions on some recent claims regarding the relationship between Georg von der Gabelentz and Ferdinand de Saussure.; title: Bloomfieldian linguistics and the problem of meaning.; title: Zu Ursprung und Entwicklung des Phonem-Begriffs.; title: 1876 as a turning point in the history of linguists.; title: Zu Ursprung und Geschichte der Besternung in der historischen Sprachwissenschaft.