Full Description
This volume unites papers given by members of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) at meetings held in Washington, D.C., in March and December 1989, respectively. They represent the scope and breadth of interest of North American scholars in this growing field, ranging from linguistic concepts, ideas, and theories in the Classical Greek and Roman period to developments in grammatical theory and sociolinguistics in the second half of the 20th century, and from the study of American Indian languages in the 17th through the present century and the philosophy of language from Aristotle to John Locke, to F.B. Skinner and Chomsky. A detailed Index of Authors, including life-dates, rounds off the volume.
The text of this volume has also been published in Historiographia Linguistica XVII:1/2.
Contents
1. Foreword by the General Editor; 2. Articles/Aufsatze; 3. The Abandonment of Nomos in Greek Linguistic Thought (by Joseph, John E.); 4. Dionysius Thrax vs Marcus Varro (by Taylor, Daniel J.); 5. Reflections on the History of Dependency Notions in Linguistics (by Percival, W. Keith); 6. Language Variation and Linguistic Description in 16th-Century France (by Kibbee, Douglas A.); 7. A 17th-Century Account of Mohawk (by Dinneen, S.J., Francis P.); 8. Neo-Aristotelian Grammar in 17th-Century England: Bassett Jones' theory of rational syntax (by Subbiondo, Joseph L.); 9. Liberalism in Lockean Linguistics (by Taylor, Talbot J.); 10. Wilhelm von Humboldt and North American Ethnolinguistics: Boas (1894) - Hymes (1961) (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 11. Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist Text Tradition (by Darnell, Regna); 12. Skinner and Chomsky Thirty Years Later (by Andresen, Julie T.); 13. Competence vs. Performance; Theoretical vs. Applied: The development and interplay of two dichotomies in modern linguistics (by Newmeyer, Frederick J.); 14. A Brief History of American Sociolinguistics, 1949-1989 (by Shuy, Roger W.); 15. Phonetics and Phonology, 1949-1989 (by Sara, Solomon I.); 16. Index of Authors
