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    The Oxford handbook of the history of linguistics / edited by Keith Allan.

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    • Title:The Oxford handbook of the history of linguistics / edited by Keith Allan.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Allan, Keith, 1943-
    • Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Linguistics--History.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:xvii, 924 pages ; 26 cm.
    • Series:Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
    • Summary:In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore linguistic traditions in east and west, chronicle centuries of explanations for language structures, meanings, and usage, and look at how it has been practically applied. This handbook makes a significant contribution to the historiography of linguistics. It will also be a valuable reference for scholars and students in linguists and related fields, including philosophy and cognitive science.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780199585847
      0199585849
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Origins and the Evolution of Language / Salikoko S. Mufwene
      2. History of Writing as a History of Linguistics / Peter T. Daniels
      3. History of the Study of Gesture / Adam Kendon
      4. History of Sign Language Linguistics / Bencie Woll
      5. Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics / Michael K. C. MacMahon
      6. From IPA to Praat and Beyond / Deborah Loakes
      7. Nineteenth-Century Study of Sound Change from Rask to Saussure / Kate Burridge
      8. Discoverers of the Phoneme / Harry van der Hulst
      9. History of Sound Symbolism / Margaret Magnus
      10. East Asian Linguistics / Karen Steffen Chung
      11. Linguistics in India / Peter M. Scharf
      12. From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic / Edward Lipinski
      13. From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's Legacy to Grammar / David Blank
      14. Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century / Anneli Luhtala
      15. Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language / Andrew Linn
      16. Word-Based Morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP (Word and Paradigm Models) / James P. Blevins
      17. General or Universal Grammar from Plato to Chomsky / Jaap Maat
      18. American Descriptivism (`Structuralism') / James P. Blevins
      19. Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: A Sketch / Robert Freidin
      20. European Linguistics since Saussure / Giorgio Graffi
      21. Functional and Cognitive Grammars / Anna Siewierska
      22. Lexicography from Earliest Times to the Present / Patrick Hanks
      23. Logico-philosophical Tradition / Pieter A. M. Seuren
      24. Lexical Semantics from Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics / Dirk Geeraerts
      25. Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning / Dirk Geeraerts
      26. Brief Sketch of the Historic Development of Pragmatics / Jacob L. Mey
      27. Meaning in Texts and Contexts / Malia Thomas
      28. Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics since the Eighteenth Century / Kurt R. Jankowsky
      29. Language, Culture, and Society / Ana Deumert
      30. Language, the Mind, and the Brain / Alan Garnham
      31. Translation: The Intertranslatability of Languages; Translation and Language Teaching / Kirsten Malmkjaer
      32. Computational Linguistics / Graeme Hirst
      33. History of Corpus Linguistics / Andrew Hardie
      34. Philosophy of Linguistics / Esa Itkonen.
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