Linguistics in America 1769-1924
Subtitle: A Critical History (History of Linguistic Thought)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 6, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415132596
First sentence: Taking 1769 and the founding of the American Philosophical Society as a point of departure, the level of linguistic activity in the American Colonies, when measured against the state of European language studies, might be said to begin at point zero.