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History of Linguistics, Volume 4: Nineteenth-Century Linguistics

By Giulio C. Lepschy (editor) , Anna Morpurgo Davies

Book information

Publisher
Longman
Year
1998
ISBN
9780582294776, 0582294770
Open Library ID
OL7880289M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
14 MB (14795817 bytes)
Series
Longman Linguistics Library
Pages
464\458
Topic
History
Time added
2013-05-29 23:06:19

Description

This fourth volume in a five-part study, shows how linguistics came into its own as an independent discipline separated from philosophical and literary studies and enjoyed an intellectual and institutional success tied to the research ethos of the new universities, until it became a model for other humanistic subjects which aimed at "scientific status". The linguistics of the 19th century abandon earlier theoretical discussions in favour of a more empirical and historical approach, using new methods to compare and to investigate their history.

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