Essays in the History of Linguistics

1. Preface & Acknowledgments; 2. I. Programmatic Papers in the History of Linguistics; 3. 1. On the Place of Linguistic Historiography within the Sciences of Language, again; 4. 2. Ideology, Politics, and Social-Science Scholarship: On the responsibility of intellectuals; 5. 3. Myths in the History of Linguistics: The case of the goals of Georg Wenker's dialectology; 6. 4. On 'Influence' in Linguistic Historiography: Morphophonemics in American structuralism; 7. II. Studies in Linguistic Historiography; 8. 5. Missionary Linguistics in the America: The 'heroic period'; 9. 6. The Place of Geology in W.D. Whitney's Linguistic Argument; 10. 7. Toward a Historiography of Polish Linguistics; 11. 8. Three Saussures -- one 'structuralist' avant la lettre; 12. III. Sketches historiographical and (auto)biographical; 13. 9. R.H. Robins, J.R. Firth, and Linguistic Historiography; 14. 10. My Edinburgh Connections, 1964-present; 15. 11. Remarks on the Pre-History of the Henry Sweet Society; 16. 12. Notes on the Early History of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences; 17. IV. Addendum; 18. Zellig S. Harris: A complete bibliography of his writings, 1932-2002; 19. Index of Biographical Names; 20. Index of Subjects, Terms & Languages