If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult to find a single page without reference to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning--passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short,…
If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult to find a single page without reference to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning--passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short,…
I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was syntax,…
I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was syntax,…
Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. This book points out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from different intellectual so…
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. Som…
The present volume brings together the author's most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the legacy of a number of major 20th-century scholars. Some of the chapters are revisions of previously published articles, w…
A short history of linguistics
by Robins, R. H., (Robert Henry)
fromLongman linguistics library
This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China and …
A short history of linguistics
by Robins, R. H., (Robert Henry)
fromLongman linguistics library
