History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide(94 Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)

The papers in this volume present a colourful picture of the range of research currently being undertaken in the field of the history of linguistics, with contribution both from established scholars and from younger researchers. The volume is organised on a geographical basis, with sections devoted to a number of different traditions in linguistics world-wide. The opening section is concerned with a number of general and methodological topics — ranging from the notion of ‘revolution’ in linguistic historiography to the history of the study of ape language. The second section is devoted to ‘missionary linguistics’, an umbrella category for the early contacts of Europeans with non-European languages. Subsequent sections address individual traditions in linguistics: III. The Celtic Tradition; IV. The Chinese Tradition; V. The Georgian Tradition; VI. The Hebrew Tradition; VII. The Japanese Tradition; VIII. The Persian Tradition; IX. The Russian Tradition; X. The Tamil Tradition.

Table of Contents:
1. Foreword; 2. ICHOLS VII Selection Committee; 3. Conference Programme; 4. I. Generalia; 5. The concept of 'revolution' in linguistics: Historical, methodological and philosophical considerations (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 6. Georg(e) Forster und Wilhelm von Humboldt - oder: Von der vergleichenden Ethnologie zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft (by Schmitter, Peter); 7. The subject-predicate debate X-rayed (by Seuren, Pieter A.M.); 8. Ape linguistics (or: Is Kanzi a cartesian?) (by Taylor, Talbot J.); 9. II. Missionary Linguistics; 10. From 'Insula Vera Crux' to 'Terra Brasiliensis': History, (hi)stories and the historiography of Brazilian linguistics (by Altman, Cristina); 11. Morphosyntactic analysis exotic languages in Lorenzo Hervas (1735-1809) (by Breva-Claramonte, Manuel); 12. Diverse sounds and similar meanings: Registration of Queqhua and Aymara terms by Spanish lexicographers in the early colonial period (by Crickmay, Lindsey); 13. An anonymous eighteenth-century Southern Peruvian vocabulary: Hybridisation, semantic peculiarities and socio-cultural contextualization (by Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, Sabine); 14. 'Language as a living, cultural phenomenon': Gladys Amanda Reichard and the study of native American languages (by Falk, Julia S.); 15. Main trends in the history of linguistics in Mexico (by Garza Cuaron, Beatriz); 16. The colonial linguistics of Leopold de Saussure (by Joseph, John E.); 17. Horatio Hale's grammatical sketch of Tsihaili-Selish (by Mackert, Michael); 18. Innovations in a vernacular grammar: A comparison of Fray Maturino Gilberti's Latin and Tarascan grammars (by Monzon, Cristina); 19. Investigating diversity: Descriptive grammars, empirical research and the science of language (by Nowak, Elke); 20. Learning Urdu in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Dialogues and familiar phrases (by Steadman-Jones, Richard); 21. III. The Celtic Tradition; 22. Edward Davies and paradigm shift in nineteenth-century Celtic studies (by Davis, Daniel R.); 23. J.G. Sparwenfeldt and Celtic linguistics in seventeenth-century Sweden (by McKendry, Eugene); 24. Latinate terminology in 'Auraicept na nEces' (by Poppe, Erich); 25. Moth, toth, traeth: Sex, gender and the early Irish grammarian (by Russell, Paul); 26. IV. The Chinese Tradition; 27. Y.R. Chao and Universal Chinese Grammar (by Matthews, Stephen); 28. V. The Georgian Tradition; 29. Theories on the origin of Kartuli [Georgian] writing [alphabet] (by Kemertelidze, Nino); 30. Case System of a Name in Anton I Bagrationi's (1720-1788) Kartuli [Georgian] Grammar (by Potskhishvili, Alexander); 31. VI. The Hebrew Tradition; 32. On the history of semitic linguistic philosophy: Ernest Renan and Heinrich Ewald (by Gruntfest, Yaakov); 33. Abraham de Balmes and his grammar of Biblical Hebrew (by Tene, David); 34. VII. The Japanese Tradition; 35. European tradition in the history of linguistics in Japan (by Shimomiya, Tadao); 36. VIII. The Persian Tradition; 37. The development and the climax of the Persian grammatical tradition (by Meshkatod Dini, Mehdi); 38. The Persian Grammar of Sir William Jones (by Jeremias, Eva M.); 39. IX. The Russian Tradition; 40. Quelques reperes dans la definition de la norme grammaticale en Russie au XVIIIe siecle (by Archaimbault, Sylvie); 41. La theorie des deux sciences dans la linguistique russe et sovietique (by Seriot, Patrick); 42. X. The Tamil Tradition; 43. The conception of 'coordination' in ancient Tamil grammar (by Chevillard, Jean-Luc); 44. Abstracts; 45. Contents of Volume Two; 46. Index of Names; 47. Index of Topics