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Western Linquistics
Western Linquistics
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This book provides a vital student resource - a single-volume critical survey of the complete history of Western theoretical linguistics (grammar and semantics, including logic) from Plato till today.
The volume concentrates on those issues that are of central concern to present-day theoretical linguistics, but also draws attention to episodes and issues that have unjustifiably slid into oblivion, such as the 18th century French grammarians or the great subject-predicate debate between 1850 and 1930. An effort has also been made to interpret events and developments in linguistic theory in terms of the more general cultural and economic movements of the periods concerned. It contains many expository and exegetic quotations, together with critiques of theoretical positions and, sometimes, of academic behavior.
The book can serve as a basic text for a course on the history of linguistics, and as a collateral text in various courses on the theory of grammar and semantics.
Author: Seuren
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 04/14/1998
Pages: 588
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.23lbs
Size: 9.67h x 6.78w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9780631208914
The volume concentrates on those issues that are of central concern to present-day theoretical linguistics, but also draws attention to episodes and issues that have unjustifiably slid into oblivion, such as the 18th century French grammarians or the great subject-predicate debate between 1850 and 1930. An effort has also been made to interpret events and developments in linguistic theory in terms of the more general cultural and economic movements of the periods concerned. It contains many expository and exegetic quotations, together with critiques of theoretical positions and, sometimes, of academic behavior.
The book can serve as a basic text for a course on the history of linguistics, and as a collateral text in various courses on the theory of grammar and semantics.
Author: Seuren
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 04/14/1998
Pages: 588
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.23lbs
Size: 9.67h x 6.78w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9780631208914
About the Author
Peter A. M. Seuren was Lecturer in Linguistics at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities before becoming Professor of Philosophy of Language and then of Theoretical Linguistics at Nijmegen University. His publications include Semantic Syntax (1996), Discourse Semantics (1985), and Operators and Nucleus (1969).
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