Selected Writings of William Dwight Whitney

by William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney, a commanding figure in 19th-century philology, may be considered the most important and wide-ranging precursor of modern linguistic theory. The selections in this book (covering the years 1861-1892) represent his pioneer work in linguistics and are relevant in the most urgent sense to the debate on the nature of language and linguistics shaping up once again between students of rationalist grammar and students of culture. Whitney...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262190877
• ISBN13: 9780262190879
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.