35.3367, Qs: A request for assistance in obtaining some literature

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Subject: 35.3367, Qs: A request for assistance in obtaining some literature

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Date: 28-Nov-2024
From: Goran Perić [goran.1099 at gmail.com]
Subject: A request for assistance in obtaining some literature


Dear Linguist List members,

I am an MA student of English from Belgrade, Serbia and I am currently
writing an MA thesis about Leonard Bloomfield's theoretical views and
contributions to linguistics, where I intend to provide an overview
and a critical analysis of Bloomfield's views on language,
linguistics, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and
semantics. In the course of this analysis, there will be comparisons
to the opinions of his contemporaries and of Saussure and Chomsky. I
will conclude my thesis with an assessment of his contributions to
general linguistics and an overview of his contributions to various
specialised fields (historical linguistics, Indo-European studies,
Amerindian linguistics, etc.).

Now, there is some relatively obscure literature which I need and
which I can obtain only with the help of some linguists from the US.
Some of you may have read Dominik Wujastyk's article "Bloomfield and
the Sanskrit origin of the terms 'exocentric' and 'endocentric'", in
which he put forward the theory that Bloomfield introduced those terms
into linguistics as English equivalents of Patañjali's terms
anyapadārtha and svapadārtha. However, in the article entitled "From
the history of the term 'exocentric'" Jan Noordegraaf has pointed out
that Aleksander Aleksandrov was actually the one who introduced the
term exocentric (and esocentric, which was the precursor of
Bloomfield's term endocentric) and that Karl Brugmann adopted his
terminology. Years later, Thomas Linder apparently solved the mystery
of the origin of the term endocentric in his article "A note on
'endocentric'". He discovered that Robert S. Conway suggested in a
review of the 1909 edition of Brugmann's Grundriss that the term
esocentric be replaced with endocentric because "it seems rather a
cruelty to
hearers, printers and readers alike to make an important difference of
meaning
depend merely on the difference of two single sounds and symbols which
are so
closely alike as s and x."

However, there is one issue which has not even been raised until now,
let alone addressed. Namely, it appears that readers of Bloomfield's
Language often forget to look at the notes at the end of the book.
Consequently, they miss out on the references which are contained
therein. In this case, what has been overlooked is Bloomfield's
references to four dissertations on compounds (three on compounds in
English and one on compounds in German). Now, the problem is that I
cannot access those dissertations because they cannot be found either
in Serbian libraries (which is small wonder given their obscurity) or
on the Internet, which is somewhat strange since at least two of them
are over 100 years old. HathiTrust says that they can only be accessed
in the US. Therefore, I would be very grateful if someone could
download and send them to me. Here is the relevant information about
them:

Fabian, Erich, Das exozentrische Kompositum im Deutschen. Leipzig,
1931.

Künzel, Georg, Das zusammengesetzte Substantiv und Adjektiv der
englischen Sprache. Dissertation, Leipzig, 1910.

Last, Werner, Das Bahuvrihi-Compositum im Altenglischen,
Mittelenglischen und Neuenglischen. Dissertation, Greifswald, 1925.

Uhrström, Wilhelm, Pickpocket, turnkey, wrap-rascal and similar
formations in English. Stockholm, 1918.

This literature would help me determine to what extent Bloomfield's
treatment of compounds is actually original.

Thanks in advance,
Goran Perić

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics




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