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Uniformitarianism in Linguistics.
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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1983.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of linguistics ;
v. 31. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (153 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027280282 9027280282 1283314231 9781283314237 9786613314239 6613314234 |