the history of historical linguistics

[Rankin, Robert L]

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Second half of Leonard Bloomfield's _Language_, 1933.  Bloomfield presages
most of what followed for the rest of the 20th century at one place or
another in his historical chapters.

Bob Rankin

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From: Stijn Verleyen [mailto:stijn.verleyen at kulak.ac.be]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:15 AM
To: HISTLING at VM.SC.EDU
Subject: the history of historical linguistics


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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

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