Linguistics in Britain: Personal Histories

by Keith Brown (Editor), Vivien Law (Editor)

Overview

This is a collection of ‘linguistic autobiographies' by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.

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• Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists.
  
• Provides an overview of the rapid growth of linguistics in the last 50 years.
  
• Reflects on the achievements of British linguistics since the Second World War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631234760
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/28/2002
Series:	Publications of the Philological Society , #36
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.09(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Keith Brown is a member of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-editor of the Blackwell Publishing journal, Transactions of the Philological Society.

Vivien Law was lately Reader in the History of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She was the author or editor of numerous publications, including Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages (1997).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Jean Aitchison 1

W. Sidney Allen 14

R. E. Asher 28

John Bendor-Samuel 43

Gillian Brown 53

N. E. Collinge 67

Joseph Cremona 78

David Crystal 91

Gerald Gazdar 104

M. A. K. Halliday 116

Richard Hudson 127

John Laver 139

Geoffrey Leech 155

John Lyons 170

Peter Matthews 200

Anna Morpungo Davies 213

Frank Palmer 228

Randolph Quirk 239

R. H. Robins 249

Neil Smith 262

J. L. M. Trim 274

Peter Trudgill 286

John Wells 297

General Index 307