| srics UBRARY General editore apstyof London By ot Lancaster TEACHING + unguisnes 2 Shy sunver Ri Robins -unguisrics 6 Language @ yo moDens Srcoph Gui TN ENGUSH 17 iD ATTMUDE indo Our linguistics 1 READINGS. AGE CHANGE 19 YM Andeson LANGUAGE 14, wid Cooper “Aeo-synrax 18 ‘OPOSITIONS 16 | Tetcony ‘phen Land ePosITONS 17 ‘id ©: Bonnet Guisi vera 18 "Fo Palmar - unguismies 19 Ich srTax 20 Ive stuns Set Robin A Short History of Linguistics LH, Robins Prfee of Gre Lng ihe Cate af Loto cat AAA FIEIL] LONGMAN coeovo noo sr Asecated compancy, branches and representatives thoughout = ‘he or OR H. Robins 1967 All sights reserved No part ofthis publication may be re- prod ned va sether steno ante ny fos or by aby meanest mechanical photeopying, "este Ur theese without te ror pelmision of Copyright owner ust published 1867 “Thin impression 1975, ISBN 0 582 52897 « Lowe fe Bryne Pinter) Lid Thord, Norfolk Preface {this book Xa Singustic studies + frst hapter, then in Berope, but it contbutions that the European con! "Tee history of teaching and reser ‘counes ia ings strewhere, The ia ‘elopments and in the maturity. offi ny praca appl preset book will ‘and students nee ‘of what has beer rotable areas of Tn venting o: ofa numberof di anything Hike equ thee uch an ond sate, and the p- one period to ano sam of the eal, istry of current to adect fom the to be of permane ‘ary gest in th slo: has been w une of recntandor ative thoughout act {aL Robi 1867 “aon my bere seus “rene ae Capra owas sepubliid 1967 Fimpresion 1976 woz seam 4 in Gree Brin by Preface Jn tis book Thave attempted wo give bee account ofthe Rina 9 linguistic studies up tothe present day. For the reaton stl ine ‘rt chapter, the narrative i orgaizd ound the Bistro lingvitn in Europe, but it s my hope tha due novice hasbeen taken of the Conteibtins thatthe subject has crn from work organ outsile the European coninent “The history of Hingis is mow widely rengrized asa ld or ceaching and research and ith ben inarprated int che elabusof courses in inguin n'a number of iver ln Great Drain aad Sleewhere. The terest curently bung shown hy lingua in pate dex “elopments and in the erie story of thee ubject bin ls gnot the matuiyof Unga an academe dsipline, quite apart frm any pret pplication of linge stance, Te is ny hope thatthe present Book il go some part of the way towers Fulllng teaches’ ru stodents’ needs inthis eld, beth in deepening ther spect ff wha fas been done in the sdy of language and in auggestiog proftable seas of further rearch. Ta Yeturng an book ofthis cope, on sat once made conscious of a number of difcles. Inthe ret lc, noone petoon cn achieve tnthng like equal fay with te entre range of inguin werk ‘Bat such an undertaking requires of him. Secondly, the extent the rate and the present este ofthe source material ves widely fom ne paid to anther Thee are laneatble gaps ia our knowledge at tome ofthe ery pioneers of linguistic while inthe contemporary history of current tend the problem is an oppo one het of yng to sce from the great at of published material hat which I ly tobe of permanent historia signance. Moreover, diferent periods vary grey in the amount of basi revearch already underatens gute slot hasbeen writen on the Greco-Roman ers of linge, and a rumber of recent historia testments have fllowed the inspiration