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Fifty key thinkers on language and linguistics /

What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the relationship of language to thought? "Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics" explores how fifty of the most influential figures in the field have asked and have respond...

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Main Author: Thomas, Margaret (Margaret Ann), 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2011]
Subjects:
Historical linguistics.
Linguists > Biography.
Linguistics > History.
historical linguistics.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780203814482
0203814487
1280661151
9781280661150
9781134191703 (electronic bk.)
1134191707 (electronic bk.)
9786613638083
6613638080
1136707506
9781136707506
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Pāṇini (fourth or fifth century)
  • Plato (c. 428/7-c. 349/7 BCE)
  • Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
  • Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BCE)
  • Language in the Bible
  • Aelius Donatus (fourth century CE) and Priscian of Caesarea (sixth century CE)
  • Sībawayhi (d. c. 796) )
  • 'The first grammarian' (twelfth century)
  • The speculative grammarians (fl. c. 1250-1400)
  • King Sejong the Great (1397-1450)
  • Antoine Arnauld (1612-94) and Claude Lancelot (1615-95)
  • John Wilkins (1614-72)
  • John Locke (1632-1704)
  • Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
  • Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac (1714-80)
  • Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
  • August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845) and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829)
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
  • Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
  • Franz Bopp (1791-1867)
  • Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900)
  • Paul Broca (1824-80)
  • William Dwight Whitney (1827-94)
  • James A. H. Murray (1837-1915)
  • Henry Sweet (1845-1912)
  • Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929)
  • Karl Brugmann (1849-1919)
  • Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
  • Otto Jespersen (1860-1943)
  • Daniel Jones (1881-1967)
  • Edward Sapir (1884-1939)
  • Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949)
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
  • John Rupert Firth (1890-1960)
  • Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934)
  • Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
  • Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941)
  • Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965)
  • J. L. Austin (1911-60)
  • Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000)
  • H. Paul Grice (1913-88)
  • Joseph H. Greenberg (1915-2001)
  • Charles F. Hockett (1916-2000)
  • Roger William Brown (1925-97)
  • M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925)
  • William Labov (b. 1927)
  • Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
  • Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001)
  • James D. McCawley (1938-99)
  • Deborah Cameron (b. 1958).

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