Studies in Formal Historical Linguistics

di H.M. Hoenigswald (Autore)

Springer, 1973

These separate but related essays owe their existence to a combined concern for the workings of text criticism and historical linguistics and for the history of scholarship in these fields. On earlier occasions I have suggested certain views on the development of the so-called comparative method. Few things are more rewarding than to bring implicit preconceptions of the past and present out into the open, as I aimed to do then and as I aim to do now. This time existing tradition is treated as a body - without, I hope, being seriously distorting - and one small portion of its working assumptions is examined. My thanks go to the colleagues and students with whom I have had fruitful discussion, but especially to Zellig S. Harris, and to Henry Hiz who expended much more than just his excellent editorial care on these efforts. I only hope that I have learned as much from him as he has patiently tried to teach me. Lloyd W. Daly has kindly read parts of an earlier version and has contri­ buted valuable suggestions.

• Autore: H.M. Hoenigswald
• Editore: Springer
• Collana: Formal Linguistics Series
• Anno: 1973
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 64 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9789027702708

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