A History of Modern Linguistics

In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures of linguistics, their controversies, and the role of the social and political context in shaping their ideas and met...

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In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures of linguistics, their controversies, and the role of the social and political context in shaping their ideas and methods.

While A History of Modern Linguistics focuses on disciplinary linguistics, the boundaries of the account are porous: developments in neighbouring fields - in particular, philosophy, psychology and anthropology - are brought into the discussion where they have contributed to linguistic research.

James McElvenny is a Researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre “Media of Co-operation” at the University of Siegen, and has previously held positions at the universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Potsdam. He is the author of Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism (EUP, 2018), and editor of The Limits of Structuralism (2023) and Form and Formalism in Linguistics (2...

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James McElvenny is a Researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre “Media of Co-operation” at the University of Siegen, and has previously held positions at the universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Potsdam. He is the author of Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism (EUP, 2018), and editor of The Limits of Structuralism (2023) and Form and Formalism in Linguistics (2019).

1. Introduction
2. Comparative-historical grammar
3. Language classification
4. The consolidation of comparative-historical linguistics
5. The pragmatic turn of the mid-nineteenth century
6. Neogrammarian doctrine
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1. Introduction
2. Comparative-historical grammar
3. Language classification
4. The consolidation of comparative-historical linguistics
5. The pragmatic turn of the mid-nineteenth century
6. Neogrammarian doctrine
7. Critiques of Neogrammarian doctrine
8. Language as a system
9. The phoneme
10. Prague Circle structuralism
11. The beginnings of functionalism
12. Meaning and British linguistics
13. Functionalism in Central Europe and North America
14. The beginnings of American structuralism
15. Linguistic relativity
16. The culmination of American structuralism
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
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