William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language
William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language

Author: Stephen G. Alter

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2005-04-13

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780801880209

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Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language offers a full-length study of America's pioneer professional linguist, the founder and first president of the American Philological Association and a renowned Orientalist. In recounting Whitney's remarkable career, Stephen G. Alter examines the intricate linguistic debates of that period as well as the politics of establishing language study as a full-fledged science. Whitney's influence, Alter argues, extended to the German Neogrammarian movement and the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. This exploration of an early phase of scientific language study provides readers with a unique perspective on Victorian intellectual life as well as on the transatlantic roots of modern linguistic theory.

William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language
William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language

Author: Stephen G. Alter

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 142142911X

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Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language offers a full-length study of America's pioneer professional linguist, the founder and first president of the American Philological Association and a renowned Orientalist. In recounting Whitney's remarkable career, Stephen G. Alter examines the intricate linguistic debates of that period as well as the politics of establishing language study as a full-fledged science. Whitney's influence, Alter argues, extended to the German Neogrammarian movement and the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. This exploration of an early phase of scientific language study provides readers with a unique perspective on Victorian intellectual life as well as on the transatlantic roots of modern linguistic theory.

Whitney on Language
Whitney on Language

Author: William Dwight Whitney

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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The selections in this book (covering the years 1861-1892) represent William Dwight Whitney's pioneer work in linguistics.

The Science of Language
The Science of Language

Author: Muller

Publisher: Obscure Press

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1846646812

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Originally published in 1899. Author: F. Max Muller, K.M. Language: English Keywords: Language Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

From Whitney to Chomsky
From Whitney to Chomsky

Author: John E. Joseph

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002-12-18

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9027275378

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What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader cultural trends?This book brings together 15 years of research by John E. Joseph, including his discovery of the meeting between Whitney and Saussure, his ground-breaking work on the origins of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’ and of American sociolinguistics, and his seminal examination of Bloomfield and Chomsky as readers of Saussure. Among the original findings and arguments contained herein: • why ‘American structuralism’ does not end with Chomsky, but begins with him; • how Bloomfield managed to read Saussure as a behaviourist avant la lettre; • why in the long run Skinner has emerged victorious over Chomsky; • how Whorf was directly influenced by the mystical writings of Madame Blavatsky; • how the Whitney–Max Müller debates in the 19th century connect to the intellectual disparity between Chomsky’s linguistic and political writings.

Roots Verb Forms and Primary Derivatives
Roots Verb Forms and Primary Derivatives

Author: William Dwight Whitney

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9788120804852

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The work is intended especially as a supplement to the author's Sanskrit Grammar giving a fullness of detail that was not there practicable, nor admissible as part of the grammar itself, all the quotable roots of the language, with the tense and conjugation-systems made from them and with the noun and adjective (infinitival and participial) formation that attach themselves most closely to the verb and further with the other derivative noun and adjective-stems usually classed as primary. Everything given is dated with such accuracy as the information thus far in hand allows. In the indexes of stems given at the end of the volume, a classification is adopted which is intended to facilitate the historical comprehension of the language, by distinguishing what belongs respectively to its older and to its later periods from that which forms a part of it through the whole history.

A Key Into the Language of America
A Key Into the Language of America

Author: Roger Williams

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1557094640

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A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.

Uniformitarianism in Linguistics
Uniformitarianism in Linguistics

Author: T. Craig Christy

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9027245134

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This study examines specific implications of the considerable overlap in methodology and theory of 19th-century geology and philology. Recognition of this overlap is indispensable to a complete understanding of philology s development into the more empirical science of linguistics, especially as this empiricism culminates in the neogrammarian doctrine of exceptionless sound laws.The study consists of three major parts: I Uniformitarianism in the Palaetiological Sciences [i.e., geology and other natural sciences studying life in earlier periods of the earth]; II The Rise of Uniformitarianism in Linguistics; and III The Uniformitarian Basis of Neogrammarian Linguistics.