William Dwight Whitney And The Science Of Language

Informationen zum Autor Stephen G. Alter, professor of history at Gordon College, Massachusetts, is the author of Darwinism and the Linguistic Image , also available from Johns Hopkins. Klappentext This exploration of an early phase of scientific language study provides readers with a unique perspective on Victorian intellectual life as well as on the transatlantic roots of modern linguistic theory. Zusammenfassung This exploration of an early phase of scientific language study provides readers with a unique perspective on Victorian intellectual life as well as on the transatlantic roots of modern linguistic theory.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen G Alter, Stephen G. Alter, Stephen G. (Gordon College) Alter
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2005
• EAN: 9780801880209
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8020-9
• No. of pages: 339
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Johns Hopkins University Studi; The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics