History of the language sciences : an international handbook on the evolution of the study of language from the beginnings to the present. Volume 1 = Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften : ein internationales Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Sprachforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. 1. Teilband = Histoire des sciences du langage : manuel international sur l'évolution de l'étude du langage des origines à nos jours. Tome 1

History of the language sciences : Volume 1 = Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften : ein internationales Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Sprachforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. 1. Teilband = Histoire des sciences du langage : manuel international sur l'évolution de l'étude du langage des origines à nos jours. Tome 1 / an international handbook on the evolution of the study of language from the beginnings to the present. edited by Sylvain Auroux [and others].

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of rese...

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Other Authors: Auroux, Sylvain
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2000.
Series:Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Bd. 18:1.
Subjects:
Historical linguistics.
Linguistics > History.
historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Historical linguistics
Linguistics
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Inhalt / Table des matières; Editors' Foreword; 1. General introduction; 1.1 Definition; 1.2 Scope; 1.3 Themes; 1.4 State of the art; 1.5 Structure of the Handbook; 2. Description of Individual Chapters; Vorwort der Herausgeber; 1. Allgemeine Einleitung; 1.1 Begriffsbestimmungen; 1.2 Gegenstandsbereich; 1.3 Thematische Schwerpunkte; 1.4 Forschungsstand; 1.5 Aufbau des Handbuchs; 2. Erläuterungen zu den einzelnen Kapiteln; Préface des éditeurs; 1. Généralités; 1.1 Définitions; 1.2 Envergure; 1.3 Les dominantes thématiques; 1.4 L'état de la recherche; 1.5 Structure du manuel.
  • 2. Commentaires sur les différents chapitresI. The Establishment of Linguistic Traditions in the Near East / Die Anfänge sprachwissenschaftlicher Traditionen im Nahen Osten / La constitution des traditions linguistiques au Proche-Orient ; 1. The Sumerian and Akkadian linguistic tradition; 1. Writing and languages; 2. Scribal training; 3. Akkadian lists; 4. Linguistic consciousness; 5. Bibliography; 2. Indigenous Egyptian grammar; 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Natural semantics: Paronomasia; 3. Systematic formation: Schooling; 4. Grammatical theory; 5. Indigenous linguistic terminology.
  • 6. Practical philology, diglossia7. Lexical work; 8. Foreign languages; 9. The concept of language; 10. Bibliography; 3. Die Sprachforschung in Ugarit; 1. Einleitung; 2. Einheimische Schriftdenkmäler im Rahmen der syllabischen Keilschrift; 3. Einheimische Schriftdenkmäler im Rahmen der Keilschriftalphabete; 4. Bibliographie; II. The Establishment of the Chinese Linguistic Tradition / Die Anfänge der Sprachwissenschaft in China / La constitution de la tradition linguistique chinoise ; 4. Classical Chinese philosophies of language: Logic and ontology.
  • 1. Two aspects of language in early Chinese philosophy2. Nature and function of nonsubstantive words in the Chinese language; 3. Five positions (theories) of words and sayings in Classical Chinese philosophy; 4. The Confucian doctrine of zheng-ming "rectifying names"; 5. The Daoist doctrine of wu-ming "no names"; 6. Nominalistic tendencies in Yinwenzi; 7. Platonistic tendencies in Gongsun Long; 8. The empirical (scientific) realism of names and language in the Neo-Moist Canons (Jing/Shuo); 9. Concluding remarks; 10. Bibliography; 5. The Suí-Táng tradition of Fǎnqiè phonology.
  • 1. Introduction2. The origins of Fǎnqiè; 3. Aesthetics of Fǎnqiè organization; 4. The Qièyùn rime-book; 5. The significance of the Qièyùn; 6. Prosody and other linguistic ideas; 7. Bibliography; 6. The rime-table system of formal Chinese phonology; 1. Introduction; 2. The formal system of rime-table phonology; 3. Phonological categories and their classification; 4. Classification of initials; 5. Classification of rimes; 6. Origins; 7. Higher structures of the phonological system: paired series of initials; 8. Other technical terminology; 9. Chinese alphabets; 10. Bibliography.

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