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Language and earth : effective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology /
In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
1992.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ;
v. 66. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics that has so far been neglected: that with the study of the earth. The relations between linguistics and geology were intimate and manifold as both sciences were emerging in the 18th and 19th century. Highlighted in the contributions to this volume are biographical and institutional contacts, the join. |
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| Notas: | Contributions to a symposium sponsored by the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung in Bad Homburg, Germany. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 445 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027277244 9027277249 1283313138 9781283313131 9786613313133 6613313130 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0720 ; |