the history of historical linguistics

[Damon Allen Davison]

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You might want to take a look at Sampson (1980) for his look at
Linguistics schools from the 19th century onward.

@book{sampson:80,
        author = {Geoffrey Sampson},
        title = {Schools of Linguistics},
        publisher = {Stanford UP},
        year = 1980,
        address = {Stanford, CA}
}

Best,


Damon

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 05:14, Stijn Verleyen wrote:
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> Dear Members of the HISTLING-list,
> 
> I am a Belgian PhD student working on the history of post-saussurean
> diachronic linguistics. The aim of my research is to write a synthetic
> study of the main theoretical findings and problems in historical
> linguistics since 1929 (publication of the "Thèses" of the Prague
> School), comparing different theoretical orientations. Roughly, I am
> presupposing three main groups:
> - structuralism/functionalism, e.g. the Prague Circle and the French
> School (Martinet)
> - Generative Grammar (King, Kiparsky, Klima,...)
> - Historical Sociolinguistics (Weinreich-Labov-Herzog,...)
> I am still putting together a corpus of representative texts, and in
> doing so, I've compiled a list of general introductions (manuals,
> readers,..) to historical linguistics, in order to see which
> authors/texts are frequently cited. So far, I have the following list:
> 
> Anttila, Raimo. 1989². Historical and Comparative Linguistics.
> Amsterdam-Philadelphia: Benjamins.
> Arlotto, Anthony. 1972. Introduction to Historical Linguistics. Boston:
> Houghton Mifflin.
> Baldi, P. et al. (eds). 1978. Readings in historical phonology: chapters
> in the theory of sound change. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State
> University Press.
> Boretzky, Norbert. 1977. Einführung in die historische Linguistik.
> Reinbeck: Rowohlt.
> Bynon, Theodora. 1977. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge
> University Press.
> Campbell, Lyle. Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. Edinburgh:
> Edinburgh University Press.
> Cherubim, Dieter. (ed.). 1975. Sprachwandel: Reader zur diachronischen
> Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: De Gruyter.
> Crowley, Terry. 1992². Introduction to historical linguistics. Auckland:
> Oxford University Press.
> Hock, Hans H. 1991². Principles of Historical Linguistics. Berlin:
> Mouton de Gruyter.
> Hock, Hans H - Joseph, Brian D. 1996. Language History, Language Change,
> and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative
> Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
> Hoenigswald, Henry M. 1960. Language Change and Linguistic
> Reconstruction. Chicago: University Press.
> Jeffers, Robert J. - Lehiste, Ilse. 1979. Principles and Methods for
> Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
> Jones, Charles. (ed). 1993. Historical Linguistics: Problems and
> Perspectives. London: Longman.
> Keiler, Alan R. (ed.). 1972. A Reader in Historical and Comparative
> Linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
> Lass, Roger. 1997. Historical Linguistics and Language Change.
> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
> Lehmann, WP. 19923. Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. London:
> Routledge.
> McMahon, April M. S. 1994. Understanding Language Change. Cambridge:
> Cambridge University Press. 
> Polomé, Edgar C. (ed.). 1990. Research Guide on Language Change. Berlin:
> Mouton de Gruyter.
> Szemerényi, Oswald. 19904. Einführung in die vergleichende
> Sprachwissenschaft. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
> Trask, Robert L. 1996. Historical Linguistics. London: Arnold.
> 
> My question to you is: could you point out textbooks/manuals/... that
> I've overlooked? Any other suggestion as to the delineation of a
> representative corpus (other theoretical orientations,...) are more than
> welcome.
> Thank you for your time
> Kind regards
> 
> Stijn Verleyen
> 
> -- 
> Stijn Verleyen
> FWO-Vlaanderen - KULAK
> E. Sabbelaan 53
> 8500 KORTRIJK
> tel. (056) 24 61 66
> fax (056) 24 69 99
> e-mail: stijn.verleyen at kulak.ac.be

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