Preface
List of Abbreviations
LINGUISTIC RESEARCH BEFORE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
1. Introduction
2. Linguistic Research in Ancient Greece
3. The Indian Grammatical School
4. From the Days of the Roman Empire to the end of the Renaissance
5. From the Renaissance to the end of the Eighteenth Century
LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
6. Introduction
7. The Epoch of the First Comparativists
8. The Biological Naturalism of August Schleicher
9. “Humboldtism” in Linguistics (the “Weltanschauung” theory)
10. Psychologism in Linguistics
11. The Neo-grammarians
12. Hugo Schuchardt, a Representative of the “Independents”
LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
13. Introduction
The Basic Characteristics of Twentieth Century Scholarship
The Trend of Development in Linguistics
14. Non-Structural Linguistics
Linguistic Geography
The French Linguistic School
Aesthetic Idealism in Linguistics
The Progressive Slavist Schools
Marrism
Experimental Phonetics
15. Structural Linguistics
Basic Tendencies of Development
Ferdinand de Saussure
The Geneva School
The Phonological Epoch in Linguistics
The Schools of American Linguistics
The Copenhagen School
16. Logical Symbolism in Linguistics
Logistics
Semiotics (Semiology)
Linguistic Semantics
17. Linguistic Syntax and the Generative Approach
18. Mathematical Linguistics
Introductory Remarks
Quantitative (statistical) Linguistics
Information Theory
Machine Translation
Subject Index
Index of Proper Names
