New Books from John Benjamins Publishing

[Andrew Gallinger]

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John Benjamins Publishing would like to call your attention to the
following new titles in the field of the History of Linguistics:

LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Projects & prospects.
KOERNER, E.F.K.
1999 x, 236 pp. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 92
US/Canada: Cloth:  1 55619 607 5 Price: USD 69.00
Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 4580 0 Price: NLG 138.00

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, which together
with new materials have been welded into a coherent volume.
Contents: Introduction: On the uses of the history of linguistics; Part I.
Topics in the Historiography of Linguistics; Ch. 1 The History of
Linguistics: Attainments and remaining challenges; Ch. 2 Linguistics and
Ideology: A neglected aspect of 19th and 20th century historiography; Ch. 3
Immediate and not so Immediate Sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis':
Methodological considerations; Ch. 4 The Concept of 'Revolution' in
Linguistics: Historical, methodological, and philosophical issues; Ch. 5
The Idea of Reconstruction in Comparative Linguistics: History and some
modern debates; Part II. Historical Perspectives on Individual Scholars;
Ch. 6 Otto Jespersen as a Reader of the 'Cours de linguistique generale';
Ch. 7 On the Sources of Roman Jakobson's Linguistic Inspiration; Ch. 8 J.
R. Firth's Musings on Saussurean Tenets; Ch. 9 Einar Haugen as a Historian
of Linguistics; Ch. 10 The Authors of the Idea of Language as a System ou
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BIBLIOGRAPHIA CRONOLOGICA DE LA LINGUISTICA, LA GRAMATICA Y LA LEXICOGRAFIA
DEL ESPANOL (BICRES II)

Desde el año 1601 hasta el año 1700.
Hans-Josef Niederehe
1999 vi, 472 pp. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 91
US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 635 0 Price: USD 99.00
Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 4579 7 Price: NLG 198.00

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca historica de la
filologia by Cipriano Munoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893),
our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown
considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the beginnings to
1600), published in 1994 in the same series, to bring already available
bibliographical information together with the more recent research
findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during
the past one hundred years. Now, the second volume, covering the years from
1601 to 1700, has been published, according to the same principles as the
first one. Years of work in the major librairies of Spain and other
European countries have gone into this new bibliography in order to offer
as exhaustive as possible a description of all Spanish grammars and
dictionaries, histories of the Spanish language as well studies devoted to
particular facets of its evolution in the 17th century. BICRES II brings
together in chronological order close to 1,300 titles. Access to the
bibliographical information is facilitated by several detailed indexes,
such as author index, short title index, index of places of production,
index of printers and publishers, and a index of locations of the books
described.


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