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Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' Course in General Linguistics, the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century predecessors. In this volume, the development of modern linguistics before, during and after Saussure is traced in 20 studies honouring the scholar who has done more than anyone else to professionalize linguistic historiography during the last quarter century. Among the wide range of topics covered are: grammar and philosophy in the age of comparativism, the relation of Saussure's anagram studies to his theory of the linguistic sign, nationalist overtones in German linguistics from 1914 to 1945, and the true story (with newly discovered documentation) of why Chomsky's Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory didn't get published during the 1950s or 60s. In addition to an introductory overview of Koerner's career and a complete listing of his publications, the volume includes previously unpublished materials from Saussure's notebooks.

1. Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings) (by Embleton, Sheila)
2. I. Before Saussure
3. 1. Grammar and Philosophy in the Age of Comparativism (by Formigari, Lia)
4. 2. In the Shadow of the Language Garden (by Noordegraaf, Jan)
5. 3. Lafaye's Dictionnaire des synonymes in the History of Semantics (by Hassler, Gerda)
6. 4. Samual Kleinschmidt as Syntactician (by Miller, D. Gary)
7. 5. Dufriche-Desgenettes and the Birth of the Phoneme (by Joseph, John E.)
8. 6. Sound Physiology in the Making: On the role of Henry Sweet (1845-1912) and Eduard Sievers (1850-1932) in the development of linguistic science (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.)
9. 7. First Language Acquisition and the Ontogenetic Development of Self-Consciousness in the Work of Ivan Georgov (by Stamenov, Maxim I.)
10. II. Saussure
11. 8. 'The People' and their Language in 19th-Century French Linguistic Though (by Kibbee, Douglas A.)
12. 9. A Glance at the History of Linguistics: Saussure and historical-comparativism (by Wolf, George)
13. 10. Ferdinand de Saussure: The anagrams and the Cours (by Gordon, W. Terrence)
14. 11. Identity, Similarity, and Continuity: Saussure's and Wittgenstein's searh for linguistic units (by Nerlich, Brigitte)
15. 12. Notes on Saussure's Old Irish Copybook (by Ahlqvist, Anders)
16. 13. Ferdinand de Saussure en Bulgarie (by Boyadjiev, Jivco)
17. III. After Saussure
18. 14. La concepcion del cambio fonetico de Ramon Menendez Pidal (by Ridruejo, Emilio)
19. 15. "Das Glockenspiel des Ablauts": National tones in German linguistic publications between 1914 and 1945 (by Hullen, Werner)
20. 16. Linguistic Theory in Historical Perspective: A study of J.R. Firth's The Tongues of Men (by Subbiondo, Joseph L.)
21. 17. Between Structure and History: The search for the specificity and the originality of Brazilian linguistic production (by Altman, Cristina)
22. 18. How The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory Didn't Get Published During the 1950s and 60s (by Murray, Stephen O.)
23. 19. How the Anti-Mentalistic Skeletons in Chomsky's Closet Make Psychological Fictions of his Grammars (by Steinberg, Danny D.)
24. 20. The Origins of Modern Japanese Psycholinguistics within the Japanese Psychological Tradition (by Kess, Joseph F.)
25. Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria
26. Name Index
27. Subject Index
28. Contents of Volume Two

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work outside these traditional areas. These 22 studies, honouring the founder of Diachronica and other publication ventures that have helped revitalize historical enquiry in recent decades, include examinations of Indo-European methodology and the reconstructions carried out by Bloomfield and Sapir; the search for relatives of Indo-European; comparative, structural and sociolinguistic analyses of the history of the Romance languages; regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut; and the synchrony and diachrony of gender affixes in Tsez.

1. Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings) (by Embleton, Sheila)
2. IV. Methodological Perspectives
3. 21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield's Central Algonquian, and Sapir's Distant Genetic Relationships (by Darnell, Regna)
4. 22. The Need for Phonetically Accurate Notation in the General Progress of Linguitics (by Levin, Saul)
5. 23. The Autonomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyond (by Bugarski, Ranko)
6. 24. On the Notion of Zero (by Roberts, E. Wyn)
7. 25. 'God's Truth' and Sturcturalism: A new look at an old controversy (by Prideaux, Gary D.)
8. 26. From Ordered Rules to Ranked Constraints (by Jensen, John T.)
9. V. Indo-European Linguistics
10. 27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-European (by Bomhard, Allan R.)
11. 28. Typolgy and Reconstruction: New trends in comparative historical and diachronic linguistics (by Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.)
12. 29. Typology and Diachrony of the Middle Voice (by Kurzova, Helena)
13. 30. Indo-European Numerals Since Szemerenyi (by Justus, Carol F.)
14. 31. Berthold Delbruck and his Contemporaries on 'Tempora' in Sanskrit (by Bubenik, Vit)
15. 32. Observations on Two Recently Discovered Latin Inscriptions (by Baldi, Philip)
16. 33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance Languages (by Wright, Roger)
17. 34. Romance Historical Morphology and Empty Affixes (by Maiden, Martin)
18. 35. Markedness and Morphosyntactic Change Revisited: The case of Romance past participle agreement (by Smith, John Charles)
19. 36. Romanian and the Balkans: Some comparative perspectives (by Joseph, Brian D.)
20. VII. Germanic, Caucasian and Asian Linguistics
21. 37. Toward "a Complete Analysis of the Residues": On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut (by Holsinger, David J.)
22. 38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic Text (by Hall, Jr., Robert A.)
23. 39. The Compound Gerund in Early Modern English (by Tajima, Matsuji)
24. 40. Gender Affixes in Tsez: Synchrony and diachrony (by Comrie, Bernard)
25. 41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old Korean (by Vovin, Alexander)
26. 42. The Role of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work: A case study (by Sidwell, Paul J.)
27. Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria
28. Name Index
29. Subject Index
30. Contents of Volume One

Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' Course in General Linguistics, the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century predecessors. In this volume, the development of modern linguistics before, during and after Saussure is traced in 20 studies honouring the scholar who has done more than anyone else to professionalize linguistic historiography during the last quarter century. Among the wide range of topics covered are: grammar and philosophy in the age of comparativism, the relation of Saussure's anagram studies to his theory of the linguistic sign, nationalist overtones in German linguistics from 1914 to 1945, and the true story (with newly discovered documentation) of why Chomsky's Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory didn't get published during the 1950s or 60s. In addition to an introductory overview of Koerner's career and a complete listing of his publications, the volume includes previously unpublished materials from Saussure's notebooks.

1. Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings) (by Embleton, Sheila)
2. I. Before Saussure
3. 1. Grammar and Philosophy in the Age of Comparativism (by Formigari, Lia)
4. 2. In the Shadow of the Language Garden (by Noordegraaf, Jan)
5. 3. Lafaye's Dictionnaire des synonymes in the History of Semantics (by Hassler, Gerda)
6. 4. Samual Kleinschmidt as Syntactician (by Miller, D. Gary)
7. 5. Dufriche-Desgenettes and the Birth of the Phoneme (by Joseph, John E.)
8. 6. Sound Physiology in the Making: On the role of Henry Sweet (1845-1912) and Eduard Sievers (1850-1932) in the development of linguistic science (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.)
9. 7. First Language Acquisition and the Ontogenetic Development of Self-Consciousness in the Work of Ivan Georgov (by Stamenov, Maxim I.)
10. II. Saussure
11. 8. 'The People' and their Language in 19th-Century French Linguistic Though (by Kibbee, Douglas A.)
12. 9. A Glance at the History of Linguistics: Saussure and historical-comparativism (by Wolf, George)
13. 10. Ferdinand de Saussure: The anagrams and the Cours (by Gordon, W. Terrence)
14. 11. Identity, Similarity, and Continuity: Saussure's and Wittgenstein's searh for linguistic units (by Nerlich, Brigitte)
15. 12. Notes on Saussure's Old Irish Copybook (by Ahlqvist, Anders)
16. 13. Ferdinand de Saussure en Bulgarie (by Boyadjiev, Jivco)
17. III. After Saussure
18. 14. La concepcion del cambio fonetico de Ramon Menendez Pidal (by Ridruejo, Emilio)
19. 15. "Das Glockenspiel des Ablauts": National tones in German linguistic publications between 1914 and 1945 (by Hullen, Werner)
20. 16. Linguistic Theory in Historical Perspective: A study of J.R. Firth's The Tongues of Men (by Subbiondo, Joseph L.)
21. 17. Between Structure and History: The search for the specificity and the originality of Brazilian linguistic production (by Altman, Cristina)
22. 18. How The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory Didn't Get Published During the 1950s and 60s (by Murray, Stephen O.)
23. 19. How the Anti-Mentalistic Skeletons in Chomsky's Closet Make Psychological Fictions of his Grammars (by Steinberg, Danny D.)
24. 20. The Origins of Modern Japanese Psycholinguistics within the Japanese Psychological Tradition (by Kess, Joseph F.)
25. Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria
26. Name Index
27. Subject Index
28. Contents of Volume Two

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work outside these traditional areas. These 22 studies, honouring the founder of Diachronica and other publication ventures that have helped revitalize historical enquiry in recent decades, include examinations of Indo-European methodology and the reconstructions carried out by Bloomfield and Sapir; the search for relatives of Indo-European; comparative, structural and sociolinguistic analyses of the history of the Romance languages; regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut; and the synchrony and diachrony of gender affixes in Tsez.

1. Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings) (by Embleton, Sheila)
2. IV. Methodological Perspectives
3. 21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield's Central Algonquian, and Sapir's Distant Genetic Relationships (by Darnell, Regna)
4. 22. The Need for Phonetically Accurate Notation in the General Progress of Linguitics (by Levin, Saul)
5. 23. The Autonomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyond (by Bugarski, Ranko)
6. 24. On the Notion of Zero (by Roberts, E. Wyn)
7. 25. 'God's Truth' and Sturcturalism: A new look at an old controversy (by Prideaux, Gary D.)
8. 26. From Ordered Rules to Ranked Constraints (by Jensen, John T.)
9. V. Indo-European Linguistics
10. 27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-European (by Bomhard, Allan R.)
11. 28. Typolgy and Reconstruction: New trends in comparative historical and diachronic linguistics (by Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.)
12. 29. Typology and Diachrony of the Middle Voice (by Kurzova, Helena)
13. 30. Indo-European Numerals Since Szemerenyi (by Justus, Carol F.)
14. 31. Berthold Delbruck and his Contemporaries on 'Tempora' in Sanskrit (by Bubenik, Vit)
15. 32. Observations on Two Recently Discovered Latin Inscriptions (by Baldi, Philip)
16. 33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance Languages (by Wright, Roger)
17. 34. Romance Historical Morphology and Empty Affixes (by Maiden, Martin)
18. 35. Markedness and Morphosyntactic Change Revisited: The case of Romance past participle agreement (by Smith, John Charles)
19. 36. Romanian and the Balkans: Some comparative perspectives (by Joseph, Brian D.)
20. VII. Germanic, Caucasian and Asian Linguistics
21. 37. Toward "a Complete Analysis of the Residues": On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut (by Holsinger, David J.)
22. 38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic Text (by Hall, Jr., Robert A.)
23. 39. The Compound Gerund in Early Modern English (by Tajima, Matsuji)
24. 40. Gender Affixes in Tsez: Synchrony and diachrony (by Comrie, Bernard)
25. 41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old Korean (by Vovin, Alexander)
26. 42. The Role of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work: A case study (by Sidwell, Paul J.)
27. Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria
28. Name Index
29. Subject Index
30. Contents of Volume One

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