the history of historical linguistics

[Martin Huld]

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>Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 21:02:32
>To: Stijn Verleyen <stijn.verleyen at kulak.ac.be>
>From: Martin Huld <ylfenn at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: the history of historical linguistics
>
>Bloomfield, Leonard.  Language 1933 [chapters 17-27 were reprinted
separately and edited by Harry Hoijer as Language History 1965; they are a
masterful summary of the subject by the greatest historical linguist of the
twentieth century] Both published by Holt
>
>Bloomfield, Leonard.  "Algonkian"  in Linguistic Structures of Native
America:85-129 Harry Hoijer (ed.) 1946 is probably the finest comparative
grammar ever written.  A masterful demonstration of parsimony and command of
data.
>
>Buck, C. D. A Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin Chicago 1933. was for
many years used in US universities as an introductory text not only for IE
but also for the whole concept of historical linguistics; the introductory
chapters discuss the principles of historical linguistics.
>
>Pedersen, Holger The Discovery of Language Harvard U Pr. 1931.  Is a widely
used history of linguistic science in the 19th century, and therefore of
historical linguistics.
>
>Haas, Mary R. The Prehistory of Languages. Mouton 1969 discusses the
theoretical basis of historical reconstruction.
>
>You might also wish to look at general linguistics text books; I know from
personal experience that in successive editions of Fromkin and Rodman the
chapters on historical linguistics grow larger, indicating that the post
Bloomfieldian dark-ages of antihistoricism was lifting by the 1980s.
>
>There are also the famous essays by
>Sapir, Edward  "The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive
Languages by Leonard Bloomfield" Methods in Social Sciences:297-306 (Stuart
A. Rice ed.)
>and the work which inspired it by
>Bloomfield, Leonard  "On the Sound System of Central Algonkian" Language
1:130-56.  ]
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>Martin E HULD
>