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Studies in Formal Historical Linguistics

By Henry M. Hoenigswald (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1973
ISBN
978-94-010-2533-1, 978-94-010-2531-7
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-2531-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2293021 bytes)
Series
Formal Linguistics Series 3
Edition
1
Pages
64\74
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Historical Linguistics

Description

These separate but related essays owe their existence to a combined concern for the workings of text criticism and historical linguistics and for the history of scholarship in these fields. On earlier occasions I have suggested certain views on the development of the so-called comparative method. Few things are more rewarding than to bring implicit preconceptions of the past and present out into the open, as I aimed to do then and as I aim to do now. This time existing tradition is treated as a body - without, I hope, being seriously distorting - and one small portion of its working assumptions is examined. My thanks go to the colleagues and students with whom I have had fruitful discussion, but especially to Zellig S. Harris, and to Henry Hiz who expended much more than just his excellent editorial care on these efforts. I only hope that I have learned as much from him as he has patiently tried to teach me. Lloyd W. Daly has kindly read parts of an earlier version and has contri­ buted valuable suggestions.

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