A Short History of Structural Linguistics

by Peter Matthews and Peter Hugoe Matthews

Book Overview

This book is a concise historical survey of structural linguistics, charting its development from the 1870s to the present day. Peter Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyzes the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the Chomskyan revolution in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning. The book includes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521625688
• ISBN13: 9780521625685
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"