Title: A short history of linguistics
First published: 1967
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.
Subjects: Linguistics, History, Taalwetenschap, Geschiedenis (vorm), Linguistique, Histoire, Linguistik, Geschichte, Lingüística, Historia, Fiction