HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS 1993 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- CONFERENCE PROGRAM -- PAPERS READ -- I. GENERAL CONCERNS -- PERSISTENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 0. Introductory Observations -- 1. Approaches to Linguistic Historiography -- 1.1 History of Linguistics and Intellectual History -- 1.2 History of Linguistics and the Philosophy, Theory and Practice of History -- 1.3 Linguistic Historiography and History and Philosophy of Science -- 1.4 Linguistic Historiography and Sociology of Science -- 1.5 Toward a Synthesis of Differing Approaches -- 2. Developing Principles for Linguistic Historiography -- 2.1 The Question of 'metalanguage' -- 2.2 The Argument of 'influence' -- 2.3 Other Considerations -- 3. Conclusion: Tasks for the Historiography of Linguistics -- REFERENCES -- ON REPLOTTING THE BEGINNINGS OF WESTERN LANGUAGE THEORY -- 1. The Traditional Plot of the Early History of Linguistics -- 2. Assumptions Underlying the Traditional Plot -- 3. An Alternative Account of the Origins of Language Theory -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE NOTION OF LANGUAGE IN MODERN THOUGHT -- REFERENCES -- THE GENEALOGY OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS -- REFERENCES -- DER FEHLER: EIN INTERPRETATIONSPROBLEM DER SPRACHWISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTSSCHREIBUNG -- 1. Die Bezeichnung 'fehlerhaft' oder 'richtig' in der Sprachwissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung -- 2. Der wissenschaftliche Fehler als epistemologisches Problem -- 3. Mögliche analytische Ansätze -- 4. Eine Fallstudie: Jacob Grimms Deutsche Grammatik I2, S. 583-584 -- 5. Abschließende Bemerkungen -- LITERATUR -- II. ORIENTAL LINGUISTICS AND RELATED ISSUES -- ON THE HISTORY OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES -- REFERENCES -- HISTORY OF JEWISH INTERLINGUISTICS : A PRELIMINARY OUTLINE -- REFERENCES.

ALCHEMICAL PHONOLOGY: SCIENCE, SOUND, AND MYSTICISM IN THE ARAB MIDDLE AGES -- REFERENCES -- EMERGENCE OF AN ARABIC LINGUISTIC PARADIGM -- 0. Preliminaries -- 1. Search for a Paradigm -- 2. Al-Khalīl -- 3. The Lexicon -- 3.1 Anagrammatic Procedure -- 3.2 Phonology -- 4. Sībawayh -- 4.1 Sībawayh's Procedure -- 4.2 Sîbawayh's Syntax -- 5. Morphology -- 5.1 /wazn (?awzān), qiyās (?aqyisah) 'weights and measures' -- REFERENCES -- THE BEGINNING OF POLYNESIAN LINGUISTICS: EXPLORERS AND MISSIONARIES -- REFERENCES -- III. FROM THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES TO THE END OF THE 17TH CENTURY -- ON THE GRAMMARIAN'S SELF-IMAGE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Limitations of the Grammarian's Domain -- 2. Grammar as a Liberal Art -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A. Primary Sources -- B. Secondary Sources -- JOHN GLYKYS AND SYNTACTIC GEOMETRY -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE TEACHING IN JUAN-LUIS VIVES (1492-1540) -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Plan of Instruction -- 2. Instructional Materials -- 3. Closing Remarks -- REFERENCES -- LOGIC, LINGUISTICS, AND SIMON STEVIN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Port-Royal Issue -- 2. Stevin's Linguistic Ideas: The Role Language Has to Play -- 3. Shortness and Composition: Meaning and Background -- 4. The Origin of the Brevity Concept -- 5. Shortness and Language Reality: The Relationship between the Ideal Word Structure and the Language Data -- 6. Further Considerations and Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- THE LOGIC OF DALGARNO'S ARS SIGNORUM (1661) -- 1. A Philosophical Language -- 2. The Phonological Theory -- 3. The Classificatory Scheme -- 4. The Lexicon of Radical Words -- 5. The Other Half of the Story -- 6. Compounds, Synonyms, Periphrasis -- 7. Grammar and Derivation -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- DICTIONARIES AND USAGE IN 17TH-CENTURY FRANCE: LE NAIF FRANÇOIS -- 0. Introduction.

1. Jean Nicot and his Thresor -- 2. Same Entries, Other Dictionaries -- 3. Naïveté in Other Writings on Language -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- A. Primary Sources -- B. Secondary Sources -- RALPH LEVER'S WITCRAFT: 16TH-CENTURY RHETORIC AND 17TH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE -- REFERENCES -- IV. ON 19TH-CENTURY EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS -- A. MURRAY'S CONCEPTION OF GLOTTOGENESIS AND N. MARR'S JAPHETIC DOCTRINE -- REFERENCES -- FROM CONCEPT TO WORD: THE HOMOPHONIC PRINCIPLE AND STEINTHAL'S THEORY OF WRITING -- REFERENCES -- ODD MAN OUT: THE LANGUAGE THEORY OF JOHAN NICOLAI MADVIG (1804-1886) -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Some Aspects of Madvig's Theory -- 2. Madvig's Place in the History of Linguistics -- REFERENCES -- EDUARDO BENOT (1822-1907): A FORERUNNER OF MODERN THINKING IN LINGUISTICS -- 1. Benot and the Academy of the Spanish Language -- 2. His Views on Language and Speech -- 3. Benot's Organization of a Grammar -- 4. Cases -- 5. Additional Approximations to Modern Views -- 6. Further Considerations on Semantics and Pragmatics -- 7. Further Considerations on Universality -- 8. Afterthought -- REFERENCES -- V. ON THE VERGE OF MODERNITY: FROM THE 19TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY -- THE 'VOCAL GESTURE' FROM WUNDT TO MEAD: A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Wundt's Concept of the Lautgebärde in his Völkerpsychologie -- 2. Mead's Vocal Gestures in 'Mind, Self, and Society' -- 3. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- THE VOLKSGEIST CONCEPT IN DUTCH LINGUISTICS: ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES, OLD AND NEW -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Case of Afrikaans -- 2. The Dutch Spelling War (1893-1947) -- 3. Concluding Remarks -- REFERENCES -- DAS DILEMMA EINES SPRACHWISSENSCHAFTLERS IM SPANNUNGSFELD ZWISCHEN PHILOSOPHIE UND PSYCHOLOGIE: OTTMAR DITTRICH -- LITERATURANGABEN.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES 1870-1933 -- REFERENCES -- THE HALE-BOAS DEBATE ON THE ORIGIN AND CLASSIFICATION OF LANGUAGES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Debate -- 1.1 The Origin of Linguistic Stocks -- 1.2 Language Classification -- 1.3 Subversion and Succession Strategies -- 2. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE AND ACTION: GERMAN APPROACHES TO PRAGMATICS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 General Remarks -- 1.2 Pragmatics in German Speaking Countries -- 2. Protopragmatics (1800-1835) -- 3. A Period of Transition (1835-1870) -- 4. Pragmatics without the Name (1870-1935) -- 5. A Period of Transition (1935-1970) -- 6. Pragmatics with the Name (1970 onwards) -- REFERENCES -- A. Primary Sources: -- B. Secondary Sources -- VI. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES -- PORTRAITS OF WOMEN LINGUISTS: LOUISE POUND, EDITH CLAFLIN, ADELAIDE HAHN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Louise Pound (1872-1958) -- 2. Edith Frances Claflin (1875-1953) -- 3. E. Adelaide Hahn (1893-1967) -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES: A RETROSPECT -- REFERENCES -- LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR: 40 YEARS OF DYNAMIC TENSION WITHIN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR -- 1. Introduction: Diversity and Unity -- 2. Description and Explanation -- 3. Consequences of the Second Conceptual Shift -- 4. The 'One Language and UG' Issue -- 5. The 'English-only Question' -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- HARRISTHE REVOLUTIONARY: PHONEMIC THEORY -- REFERENCES -- QUELQUES REMARQUES SUR L'ÉMERGENCE DU GÉNÉRATIVISME -- 1. La nature du travail -- 2. L'entité du programme génératif -- 3. L'émergence du générativisme: analyse chronologique -- 4. Les sources du générativisme -- RÉFÉRENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES -- INDEX NOMINUM.