Toward a History of American Linguistics 1st Edition by E F K Koerner ISBN 0203378636 9780415300605

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ISBN 10: 0203378636

ISBN 13: 9780415300605 

Author: E.F.K. Koerner 

Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics and also addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics.
Topics covered include:

* The sources of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’
* Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique générale
* The ‘Chomskyan Revolution’ and its Historiography
* The Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics
*William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America.

Toward a History of American Linguistics will be invaluable reading for academics and advanced students within the fields of linguistics and the history of linguistics.

Table of contents:

1. The Historiography of American Linguistics

2. Toward a History of Americanist Linguistics

3. On the Sources of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’

4. Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de Linguistique générale

5. American Structuralist Linguistics and the ‘Problem of Meaning’

6. On the Rise and Fall of Generative Semantics

7. Noam Chomsky’s Readings of Saussure from 1961

8. The ‘Chomskyan Revolution’ and its Historiography

9. On the Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics

10. William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America

11. In Lieu of a Conclusion: On the Importance of the History of Linguistics

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