UNIFORMITARIANISM IN LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. UNIFORMITARIANISM IN THE PALAETIOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIFORMITARIANISM IN GEOLOGY -- 1.3 UNIFORMITARIANISM AND BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- 1.4 UNIFORMITARIANISM AND THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN ORIGINS -- 1.5 UNIFORMITARIANISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ETHNOLOGY -- 1.6 THE INTRODUCTION OF UNIFORMITARIANISM INTO LINGUISTICS -- 1.7 CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER TWO. THE RISE OF UNIFORMITARIANISM IN LINGUISTICS -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 UNIFORMITARIANISM AND SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY -- 2.3 THE PARADIGM SHIFT FROM ORGANISM TO MECHANISM -- 2.4 ORGANICIST AND PROGRESSIONIST THEORIES OF LANGUAGE -- 2.5 UNIFORMITARIANISM, INDUCTION, AND CAUSALITY -- 2.6 INDUCTIVE PROCEDURE IN PRE-UNIFORMITARIAN LINGUISTICS -- 2.6.1 LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) AND INDUCTIVE PROCEDURE -- 2.6.2 DUGALD STEWART (1753-1828) AND INDUCTIVE PROCEDURE -- 2.7 LINGUISTICS: PHYSICAL OR MORAL SCIENCE? -- 2.8 MAX MÜLLER (1823-1900) AND UNIFORMITARIAN PROCEDURE -- 2.9 LAZARUS GEIGER (1829-1870) -- 2.10 FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR (1831-1903) -- 2.11 ARCHIBALD HENRY SAYCE (1846-1933) -- 2.12 FRIEDRICH TECHMER (1843-1891) -- 2.13 CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER THREE. THE UNIFORMITARIAN BASIS OF NEOGRAMMARIAN LINGUISTICS -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 UNIFORMITARIAN IDEAS IN THE LINGUISTIC THEORY OF HEYMANN STEINTHAL (1823-1899) -- 3.3 UNIFORMITARIANISM IN THE WORKS OF WILHELM SCHERER (1841-1886) -- 3.4 WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY'S (1827-1894) UNIFORMITARIAN LINGUISTICS -- 3.5 THE NEOGRAMMARIAN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF SPEECH ERRORS -- 3.6 KARL BRUGMANN'S (1849-1919) UNIFORMITARIAN EXPLANATION OF THE ORIGIN OF NOUN GENDER -- 3.7 CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.