Portrait Of Linguists

Hardback

Main Details

Title Portrait Of Linguists
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:616
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/Genrelinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9781843710066
ClassificationsDewey:410.922
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
Publication Date 15 August 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Portrait of Linguists is the standard biographical work in the history and theory of linguistics and a resource for all scholars of 18th, 19th and early 20th-century Western linguistics. Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, this text contains articles by eminent scholars in English, French and German. Ninety-one biographies are featured, including Wilhelm von Humboldt, Jacob Grimm, Franz Bopp, Sir William Jones and Max Muller. They constitute a mass of information on the leading figures in linguistics, and include bibliographical information in addition to revealing the authors' thoughts on the various schools of linguistics. Arranged chronologically by subjects' year of birth, this two-volume work is also indexed at the end of volume 2 and is a valuable storehouse of information on the seminal figures in the mainstream of Western linguistics.