A comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics which addresses contemporary debates and issues within

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully select

The present volume follows the author's tradition of bringing together at certain intervals selections of articles which more often than not had previously been

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 concepti

The volume brings together recent papers by the author, selected to form a broad picture of his teachings, all of them revised and updated, either addressing pa