Author: Koerner E.F.K. Koerner

This volume brings together the most important general linguistic writings by Mikołay Kruszewski (1851-1887), whom Roman Jakobson described as "one of the greatest theoreticians of language …

This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (Si Ho LS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists. This material prov …

In this volume two monographs are reprinted in their entirety; these texts by the most distinguished phonetician of the first half of this century, Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878-1966), are even tod …

The importance of the Low Countries as a centre for the study of foreign languages is well-known. The mutual relationship between the Dutch grammatical tradition and the Western European context has, …

The contributions in this volume are selected and revised papers from the 20th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Ottawa in 1990. They reflect the state of Romance linguistics carried …

This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences. These personal reminiscences on their careers in linguistics reflect de …

Newly edited by Konrad Koerner (University of Ottawa), with an introduction by Clemens Knobloch (Universitat Siegen)The importance of Wegener”s Untersuchungen uber die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens c …

This volume unites papers given by members of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHo LS) at meetings held in Washington, D.C., in March and December 1989, resp …

These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHo LS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 conta …

These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHo LS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 conta …

The Danish scholar Jan Pinborg (1937-1982) made outstanding contributions to our understanding of medieval language study. The papers in this volume clearly demonstrate the wealth of Pinborg’s schola …

The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical li …

This collection contains 24 articles on the history of linguistics written between 1978 and 1988, divided into three parts:1. Methods and Models in Linguistic Historiography 2. Tradition and Transmis …

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) a conference was held in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada, where Sapir had his office for most of his tim …

This volume brings together the papers published in Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 (1982), which was devoted to the history of linguistics in Italy, with Marazzini’s paper first published in Histori …

The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic th …

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of …

This volume presents a translation into English of Holger Pedersen’s Et Blik på Sprogvidenskabens Historie (Copenhagen 1916). In addition, it provides an introductory article by E.F.K. Koerner o …

Contains: The Darwinian Theory and the Science of language (1863) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by Alexander V. W. Bikkers. On the Significance of Language for the Natural History …

In Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Uebersicht (Bonn 1850) Schleicher works out a naturalistic conception of language and a research program inspired by the methods of the natural sciences, in …

This collection of papers deals with aspects of the history of Arabic and Hebrew linguistics. These papers appeared simultaneously in Historiographia Linguistica 8:2/3 (1981). …

The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers d …

This volume presents a set of papers on linguistic thought in the Middle Ages. It is complemented by a comprehensive bibliography and indices. The papers in this volume appeared earlier in Historiogr …

This volume presents a selection of revised papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Ottawa 1978). These have been organized under the following headings: I. …

The present bibliography suggests that there has been a constant flow of publications which survey the discipline of linguistics in its various stages of development. It attempts to offer a comprehen …

Uber den Umlaut (1843) and Uber den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. …

This volume presents a fac simile edition of Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). It is preceded by an intr …

This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by s …

This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbruck’s Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Le …

The present volume brings together the author’s most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the legacy of a number of major 20th-century …

The volume brings together recent papers by the author, selected to form a broad picture of his teachings, all of them revised and updated, either addressing particular topics in the Histor(iograph)y …

Apart from the names of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929), Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851-1887), and, later, Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895-1978), Polish linguists and Polish linguistics generally ha …

The contributions in this volume, a sequel to the volume published in 1986 (Si Ho LS 34), treat many aspects of the history of the language sciences in Spain and in Hibero-America, from the Renaissan …

The present volume follows the author’s tradition of bringing together at certain intervals selections of articles which more often than not had previously been published in not easily accessible pla …

The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author’s reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th ce …

Techmer’s Internationale Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884-1890) served, at a time of neogrammarian domination in the linguistic scene of the late 19th century, as an international …

The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Uber das Conjugationssystem can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the …