History of Linguistics 2008 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Linguistics 2008 write by Gerda Hassler. This book was released on 2011. History of Linguistics 2008 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Potsdam 2008) which are especially representative of the concerns of the conference and its thematic range. The reflection about language and the individual languages has characterized cultures since ancient times and has brought forth different traditions of the language sciences. The contributions cover the period from antiquity to contemporary history. In addition to terminological and social history approaches, they also include research results based on corpora or which reconstruct theoretical approaches. More than other scholars, linguists are turning to the history of their science for answers to current questions. This underscores the value of the history of language sciences for understanding the present state of linguistics and its development. Interdisciplinarity necessary for the research of many issues and manifestations of language makes historical reflections on the disciplines indispensable.
The History of Linguistics in Europe
The History of Linguistics in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Linguistics in Europe write by Vivien Law. This book was released on 2003-01-30. The History of Linguistics in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This authoritative and wide-ranging book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. Some of today's burning questions about language date back a long way: in 1400 BC Plato was asking how words relate to reality. Other questions go back just a few generations, such as our interest in the mechanisms of language change, or in the social factors that shape the way we speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect changing modes of thinking. A survey chapter brings the coverage of the book up to the present day. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources and the qualities the historian of linguistics needs to develop, provide the reader with the tools to go further.
English Historical Linguistics 2008: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions
English Historical Linguistics 2008: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Historical Linguistics 2008: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions write by Ursula Lenker. This book was released on 2010. English Historical Linguistics 2008: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fourteen studies selected for this volume all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23 30 August) at the University of Munich investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from two perspectives that are crucial to explaining language change, namely the analysis of usage patterns and the social motivations of language change. Documenting the way syntactic elements have changed their combinatory preferences in fine-grained corpus studies renders the opportunity to catch language change "in actu." A majority of studies in this book investigate syntactic change in the history of English from this viewpoint using a corpus-based approach, focusing on verbal constructions, modality and developments in the English noun phrase.The book is of primary interest to linguists interested in current research in the history of English syntax. Its empirical richness is an excellent source for teaching English Historical Syntax.Volume II to be announced soon."
Linguistics in a Colonial World
Linguistics in a Colonial World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linguistics in a Colonial World write by Joseph Errington. This book was released on 2010-04-30. Linguistics in a Colonial World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world. Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference Brings new insight into post-colonial controversies including endangered languages and language rights in the globalized twenty-first century
Essays in the History of Linguistics
Essays in the History of Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays in the History of Linguistics write by E. F. K. Koerner. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Essays in the History of Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume follows the author's tradition of bringing together at certain intervals selections of articles which more often than not had previously been published in not easily accessible places, or which had not been published before. These papers do not typically represent mere reprints but in most instances thoroughly revised versions.This volume contains twelve articles organized under three headings, "Programmatic Papers in the History of Linguistics," "Studies in Linguistic Historiography," and "Sketches historiographical and (auto)biographical," plus as an appendix a complete list of Zellig Harris' writings as an illustration of Koerner's penchant for and belief in the importance of good bibliographies as a basis for historical research. While the first two sections, which take up the bulk of the volume, either show the author as an historian engage or demonstrate his work as a historiographer of 19th and 20th century linguistics, the third section is much shorter and less heavy going. Indexes of Biographical Names and of Subjects, Terms & Languages round out the volume, which also contains a number of portraits of linguists and other illustrations.
