A Short History of LinguisticsA highly readable account of the origin and development of linguistic studies. Concentrating on the course of linguistic thought in Europe, Mr. Robins traces a continuous tradition of speculation and teaching on language and linguistics from the Pre-Socratic philosophers in ancient Greece, through Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Rome, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present day ... --dust jacket. |
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adjective alphabet analysis ancient antiquity Arabic Aristotelian Aristotle articulation articulatory aspects Bloomfield Bloomfieldian chapter character Chinese CHOMSKY classical conception consonants context descriptive linguistics dialect Dionysius Thrax distinction earlier English Europe European FIRTH formal grammatical description Greek Hebrew historical linguistics history of linguistics Humboldt ibid Indo-european Indo-european languages inflected inflexional J. R. FIRTH known langu language later Latin grammar Latin grammarians learning lexical lingua linguistic scholarship linguistic science linguistic studies linguistic theory logical London meaning mediaeval Middle Ages modern modi modistae morpheme morphology neogrammarians nineteenth century origin Pāṇini participle period philosophical phonetic phonological Port Royal Prague prepositions Priscian pronoun pronunciation prosodic reference relation Renaissance Roman Sanskrit Saussure scholars semantic sentence sound change speakers speech statement Stoic structure syllable syntactic syntax tagmemes teaching tense thought Thrax tion tradition transformational grammar universal Varro volume vowel western word classes word form writing