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Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820-1970

The phenomenon of absolutist, prescriptive correctness is persistent and pervasive in the linguistic through of educated and intelligent citizens of the United States. This volume is not only and ...

Dissertation on the Sanskrit Language

Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo's Dissertatio historico-critica in linguam Samscrdamicam (1790) serves as an introduction to his Sidharubam, the first Sanskrit grammar published in Europe. The Diss...

Adverbs and Comparatives

There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years, largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on t...

Analogy

This basic bibliography of analogy aims to be a useful tool for linguistic research. The compilers have emphasized the years from 1868 onwards, starting with Scherer's statement, but a few imp...

Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics

This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. S...

Papers on Language Theory and History

Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress ...

Lautgesetz-Controversy

The essays reproduced in this volume represent the major and characteristic documents in that flood of literature that was produced during the neogrammarian controversy. At that time, the entire c...

'Uber den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Uber den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)

Uber den Umlaut (1843) and Uber den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp's theory of vowel gradation i...

Uber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier

This volume presents a fac simile edition of Friedrich Schlegel's Uber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begrundung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). It is preceded by ...

In Memoriam Friedrich Diez: Akten des Kolloquiums zum Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik/Actes du Colloque sur l'Histoire des Etudes Romanes/ Proc

The first 'Kolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik' (Trier 1975) was held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Friedrich Diez, the founder of Romance phil...

Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet

This volume reprints - with additions and corrections - seven papers originally published 1962-1973, on the indigenous grammars of Tibet and their linguistic tradition. Two ancient treatises commo...

Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe

New edition, prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory. It was Hehn who for the first time combined the too...

Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue

This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask's Anvising till Islandskan eller Nordiska Fornspraket (1818). This re-edition, with an added...

Development of Morphophonemic Theory

The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer it...

Chronologisches Verzeichnis franzosischer Grammatiken vom Ende des 14. bis zum Ausgange des 18. Jahrhunderts, nebst Angabe der bisher ermittelten Fundorte derselben

This volume (1976) contains a fac simile reprint of the original 1890 edition of Stengel's Chronologisches Verzeichnis Franzosischer Grammatiken. In addition, it contains an appendix by Hans-J...

Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?

Ian Hacking

Les Illabakan (Niger)

Edmond Bernus

Essays on the Sound Pattern of English

This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of th...

Componential Analysis of Lushai Phonology

The aim of this essay is to present a phonological analysis of Lushai, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Mizoram province of India, in terms of componential features applying - as mutation ru...

Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory

This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles b...