Q: HL textbook

[Harold Koch]

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>To:Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
>From:Harold.Koch at anu.edu.au (Harold Koch)
>Subject:Re: Q: HL textbook
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>Larry
>What about early European efforts such as:
>Hermann Paul, Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte, 1880, further editions 1886,
>1898, 1909, 1920.
>
>Or early/ pre-modern introductions to linguistics, where the latter is seen
>primarily in historical terms, such as:
>W.D. Whitney. Language and the study of language: Twelve lectures on the
>principles of linguistic science. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1867.
>W.D. Whitney. The life and growth of language. New York/London, 1875.
>Joseph Vendryes, Le langage: Introduction linguistique a` l'histoire.
>(L'évolution de l'humanité) Paris: La renaissance du livre, 1923. Eng transl
>by Paul Radin, Language: a linguistic introduction to history. London:
>Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1925.
>Otto Jespersen. Language: its nature, development and origin. London: George
>Allen and Unwin, 1922.
>Trombetti, Alfredo. Elementi di glottologia. Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1923.
>And of course Bloomfield's Language in the early 1930s.
>
>Then, besides Sturtevant (mentioned by Janda), there is the partial textbook:
>Pike, Kenneth Lee. Axioms and procedures for reconstructions in comparative
>linguistics: an exerimental [i.e. experimental] syllabus. Glendale, Calif.:
>Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1950.
>
>Harold Koch
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>>Does anybody know of a university-level textbook of historical
>>linguistics earlier than W. P. Lehmann's 1962 textbook?
>>
>>Larry Trask
>>COGS
>>University of Sussex
>>Brighton BN1 9QH
>>England
>>
>>larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk
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