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Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Vi

What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American co

The selections in this book (covering the years 1861-1892) represent William Dwight Whitney's pioneer work in linguistics.