A short history of linguistics
By: R.H. Robins.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Longman linguistic library
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Linguistics  -- History.
Description: This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China and Medieval Islam, and especially in India, which was to have a profound effect on European and American linguistics from the end of the eighteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.