Concise History of the Language Sciences: From the Sumerians to the Cognitivists
This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has been a concentration on those traditions that have the greatest international relevance, a particular effort has been made to go beyond traditional Eurocentric accounts, and to cover a broad geographical spread. For the twentieth century a section has been devoted to the various trends, schools, and theoretical framework developed in...
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This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has been a concentration on those traditions that have the greatest international relevance, a particular effort has been made to go beyond traditional Eurocentric accounts, and to cover a broad geographical spread. For the twentieth century a section has been devoted to the various trends, schools, and theoretical framework developed in Europe, North America and Australasia over the past seventy years. There has also been a concentration on those approaches in linguistic theory which can be expected to have some direct relevance to work being done at the beginning of the twenty-first century or those of which a knowledge is needed for the full understanding of the history of linguistic sciences through the last half of this century. The last section of this book reviews the applications of some of these findings. Based on the foundation provided by the award winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics this volume provides an excellent focal point of reference for anyone interested in the history of the language sciences.
Editors' ForewordHistory of Linguistics: The Field3Historiography of Linguistics7Babylonian Grammatical Texts19Hebrew Linguistic Tradition21Arabic Linguistic Tradition28Chinese Linguistic Tradition41Linguistic Thought in Japan45History of East Asian Phonetics51Paninian Linguistics59Indian Theories of Meaning66Ancient Indian Phonetics72Tamil Linguistic Tradition77Classical Linguistics: An Overview83Plato and His Predecessors90Aristotle and the Stoics on Language93Dionysius Thrax, the Technai, and Sextus Empiricus99Varro and Early Latin Language Science103Roman Language Science in the Early Empire107Apollonius Dyscolus and Herodian111Roman Art's Grammatica, including Priscian115Early Medieval Grammar121Linguistics in the Later Middle Ages130Medieval Language Philosophy137Renaissance Linguistics: An Overview147Renaissance Linguistics in Italy152Renaissance Linguistics in Spain157Renaissance Linguistics in France161Port-Royal Tradition of General Grammar169Universal Language Schemes and Seventeenth-Century Britain174Early Historical and Comparative Studies in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and German-speaking Lands179Beginnings of Comparative and Historical Studies in Britain183Origin of Language Debate in the Eighteenth Century184Discovery of Sanskrit by Europeans188History of Comparative Linguistics195History of Historical Linguistics203History of Typology and Language Classification212Trends in Twentieth-Century Linguistics: An Overview221Saussurean Tradition in Linguistics233Geneva School, after Saussure239Neolinguistic School in Italy243Prague School Phonology247Prague School Syntax and Semantics253The Glossematic School of Linguistics262Firth and the London School of Linguistics268Systemic Theory272Guillaumean Linguistics277Valency Grammar280Functional Grammar290American Structuralism295Post-Bloomfieldian Phonology306Tagmemics314Stratificational Grammar320Evolution of Transformational Grammar326Generative Semantics343Applicational Grammar348Case Grammar352Cognitive Grammar364Phonetics: Precursors to Modern Approaches371History of Phonetic Transcription388Early Modern Instrumental Phonetics401Speech Technology: Historical Antecedents416History of Translation419Machine Translation: A Brief History431Machine Translation in North America445Subject Index453Index of Biographical Names483List of Contributors495
\ From the Publisher...of enormous value given the diversity and complexity of the history of linguistic thought in this century, and the difficulty most scholars have in keeping abreast of all the developments taking place within the multiplicity of disciplines called linguistics...the remit is very wide for a single, manageable volume and all the sections are written in a concise yet scholarly fashion by acknowledged experts...the reader can rely on the book's contents with the utmost confidence.... The balance between brevity and detail achieved throughout the volume makes this a first class reference work...it may be necessary to wait at least ten more years before another one volume, multi-authored history of this calibre appears.\ Historiographia Linguistica Peter Schmitter It is very welcome that E.F.K. Koerner and R.E. Asher have put together a selection of relevant articles on the history of the language sciences (from the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics) in a sinvole volume...the book deserves attention...a welcome supplement to (other) mutli-volume histories...it places emphasis on the 20th century which is not very well covered in (these) other works"\ Beiträgezur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 6\ The limited amount of space allowed book reviews makes it impossible to do full justice to Koerner and Asher's Concise History of the Language Sciences (CHoLS)...each article contained in this collection is marked by a praiseworthy lucidity of exposition coupled with an admirable degree of concision; such brevity, however, in no way precludes a noteworthy completeness of coverage...the present survey provides a comprehensive synthesis of developments in a variety of areas of language investigation. Furthermore, rather than fulfilling a merely adjunctive function, this study stands on its own as a very readable and exceptionally informative reflection on many facets of an evolving discipline, a tome which should be indispensable to anyone seriously involved with linguistics...the Concise History of the Langauge Sciences constitutes a remarkable achievement, and the scholarly world owes a debt of gratitude to all who took part in its creation.\ Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences Brigitte Nerlich What distinguishes this history of linguistics...is its almost global coverage.... The contributions are all of a very high standard and written by specialists.... It is one of the great joys of reading this book to plunge into chapters that deal with remoter regions of the history of linguistics which are unfamiliar to the reader...this book should not only be read by those interested in the history of the language sciences. The 20th century section in particular should be read by all those studying contemporary linguistics in order to grasp the diversity of approaches that have been developed, that are currently being developed, and that still can be developed in the future.\ Linguist list Zivko Bojadžiev\ ....An excellent book - a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from antiquity through to the 20th century, with an invaluable bibliography!...Libraries of universities and departments that offer courses of any sort in linguistics ought to have this book on their reference shelves.\ Contrastive Linguistics XX1\ Mauro Fernandez Useful as a reference book, to cover in the most efficient way the needs of those exploring the history of linguistics. ("...sirve, como libro de referencia, para cubrir de forma mas que suficiente las necesidades de quienes se aproximen a la historia de la linguistics").\ Anuario Galego de Filoloxia Benji Wald\ ...an informative and convenient volume for those interested in the origins and sources of current theoretical linguistics.\ Language\ \ \ \
