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Pages: 296
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Publication Date: March 2,1997
Category: Linguistics
This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins’ classic text offers a thorough account of the annals of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years back for this day.
The 4th edition of A BRIEF HISTORY of Linguistics provides better prominence to the task of Wilhelm von Humboldt, due to the lasting need for his focus on language with regards to general eighteenth hundred years considering and of its perceived relevance in the latter fifty percent of the twentieth hundred years to several areas of generative grammatical theory. It examines the independent advancement of linguistic technology in China and Medieval Islam, and specifically in India, that was to possess a profound influence on European and American linguistics from the finish of the eighteenth hundred years.
Readable and authoritative, Professor Robins’ introduction offers a very clear and up-to-date summary of all the major problems in the light of modern scholarly debate, and you will be important reading for undergraduate and graduate college students of linguistics as well. The final section, within the twentieth hundred years, offers been rewritten and split into two brand-new chapters, in order to deal successfully with the progressively divergent advancement of descriptive and theoretical linguistics that occurred in the latter half of the hundred years.