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A Short History of Structural Linguistics

By Peter Matthews

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0521623677, 9780521623674, 9780511011504
LCC
P146 .M36 2001
Open Library ID
OL6787895M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
507 kB (518986 bytes)
Pages
176\173
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;История языкознани

Description

This book is a concise historical survey of structural linguistics, charting its development from the 1870s to the present day. Peter Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyzes the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the "Chomskyan revolution" in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning. The book includes exposition, in particular, of the contributions of Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky.

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