Abstract

An account of the main phases in the development of modern linguistics as recognized by orthodox historiography. It comprises: (1) Introduction, (2) Comparative Philology, (3) The Neogrammarians, (4) Saussurean structuralism, (5) Linguistic geography and linguistic anthropology, (6) Linguistic relativity, (7) Behaviorism, (8) Distributionalism, (9) Generativism, (10) Sociolinguistics and pragmatics, (11) Speech-act theory, (12) Language origins and non-human language, (13) Retrospect.

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