The emergence of the modern language sciences : Volume 2, Methodological perspectives and applications / studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph, Hans-Josef Niederehe.

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 t...

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Other Authors: Koerner, E. F. K., Embleton, Sheila M., Joseph, John Earl, Niederehe, Hans-Josef, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Spanish
Published: Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1999.
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Summary: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 o.
Physical Description:1 online resource (lv, 335 pages)
Bibliography:Includes a bibliography of writings by E.F.K. Koerner, 1968-1999, bibliographical references, and indexes.
ISBN:9789027298423
9027298424
Language:Chiefly in English; includes one contribution in French and one in Spanish.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.