Linguistics in Britain : personal histories
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Linguistics in Britain : personal histories
(Publications of the Philological Society, 36)
Blackwell, 2002
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a collection of 'linguistic autobiographies' by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.
Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists.
Provides an overview of the rapid growth of linguistics in the last 50 years.
Reflects on the achievements of British linguistics since the Second World War.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Jean Aitchison 1
W. Sidney Allen 14
R. E. Asher 28
John Bendor-Samuel 43
Gillian Brown 53
N. E. Collinge 67
Joseph Cremona 78
David Crystal 91
Gerald Gazdar 104
M. A. K. Halliday 116
Richard Hudson 127
John Laver 139
Geoffrey Leech 155
John Lyons 170
Peter Matthews 200
Anna Morpungo Davies 213
Frank Palmer 228
Randolph Quirk 239
R. H. Robins 249
Neil Smith 262
J. L. M. Trim 274
Peter Trudgill 286
John Wells 297
General Index 307
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