NORTH AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD BY THE GENERAL EDITOR -- THE ABANDONMENT OF NÓMOS IN GREEK LINGUISTIC THOUGHT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The early history of 'physis' and 'nómos' -- 3. The early Sophists and the polarization of 'physis' and 'nómos' -- 4. Late Sophists through Plato (c. 429-347) -- 5. Aristotle (384-322) -- 6. Epicurus (342/1-271/70) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- DIONYSIUS THRAX VS MARCUS VARRO -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature of Grammar -- 3. Parts of Speech -- 4. Nouns -- 5. Verbs -- 6. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF DEPENDENCY NOTIONS IN LINGUISTICS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- LANGUAGE VARIATION AND LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION IN 16TH-CENTURY FRANCE -- 1. On the Fixity of Language -- 2. The Nature and Application of the Rules -- 2.1 Historical Variation -- 2.2 Dialectal variation -- 2.3 Sociolinguistic variation -- 3. Conclusion: Naïve puissance -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- A 17TH-CENTURY ACCOUNT OF MOHAWK -- 0. Introduction -- 1.0 Bruyas' background -- 1.1 Modern accounts of Mohawk -- 2.0 Bruyas' and contemporary accounts -- 2.1 Transcription -- 2.2 Morph-boundaries -- 2.3 Isolation of morphemic contrasts -- 2.4 Lexical selection and glosses -- 2.5 Description and explanation -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RESUMÉ -- NEO-ARISTOTELIAN GRAMMAR IN 17TH-CENTURY ENGLAND: BASSETT JONES' THEORY OF RATIONAL SYNTAX -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- LIBERALISM IN LOCKEAN LINGUISTICS -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT AND NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLINGUISTICS: BOAS(1894) TO HYMES (1961) -- 0. Introduction -- 1.0 Humboldtian ethnolinguistics in North America: Boas (1894) - Hymes (1961).

1.1 Boas, the 'inner form' of language, and language classification -- 1.2 Sapir and the so-called 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis' -- 2. Concluding remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- FRANZ BOAS, EDWARD SAPIR, AND THE AMERICANIST TEXT TRADITION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- SKINNER AND CHOMSKY THIRTY YEARS LATER -- 1. Cognitive Taste -- 2. The 1960s: Post-Sputnik Shock and the War in Vietnam -- 3. The Power of Essentializing Humanism -- 4. The Discipline of Linguistics as It Conceived of Itself Through Its Textual Tradition -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- COMPETENCE VS. PERFORMANCE -- THEORETICAL VS. APPLIED: THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERPLAY OF TWO DICHOTOMIES IN MODERN LINGUISTICS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1949-1989 -- 1. Linguistic Ancestry -- 2. Anthropological Ancestry -- 3. Sociological Ancestry -- 4. The Cross-Disciplinary Dilemma -- 5. Linguistic Geography -- 6. Changes from the Ancestral Heritage -- 7. Methodology -- 8. Names -- 9. Outlets for Publication and Research -- 10. University Specializations in Sociolinguistics -- 11. Housing -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 1949-1989 -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Phonetics -- 1.1 Articulatory Phonetics -- 1.2 Acoustic Phonetics -- 1.3 Auditory Phonetics -- 1.4 Intonation -- 2. Phonology -- 2.1 American Phonemics -- 2.2 Prague Phonology -- 2.3 Stratificational Phonology -- 2.4 Acoustic Features -- 2.5 Articulatory Features -- 2.6 Structural Phonemics and Generative Phonology -- 2.7 Natural Phonology -- 2.8 Suprasegmentals -- 2.9 The Syllable and Metrical Phonology -- 2.10 Weight Unit Phonology -- 2.11 Underspecification -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- RÉSUMÉ -- INDEX OF AUTHORS.