Leading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore the linguistic traditions in different parts of the world, examine how work in linguistics has influenced other fields, and look at how it has been practically applied

• 1: Salikoko S. Mufwene: The Origins and the Evolution of Language


• 2: Peter T. Daniels: The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics


• 3: Adam Kendon: History of the Study of Gesture


• 4: Bencie Woll: The History of Sign Language Linguistics


• 5: Michael K. C. MacMahon: Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics


• 6: Deborah Loakes: From IPA to PRAAT and Beyond


• 7: Kate Burridge: Nineteenth Century Study of Sound Change From Rask to Saussure


• 8: harry van der Hulst: Discoverers of the Phoneme


• 9: Magaret Magnus: A History of Sound Symbolism


• 10: Karen Steffen Chung: East Asian Linguistics


• 11: Peter M. Scharf: Linguistics in India


• 12: Edward Lipinski: From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic


• 13: Catherine Atherton and David Blank: From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's legacy to grammar


• 14: Anneli Luhtala: Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century


• 15: Andrew Linn: Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language


• 16: James P. Blevins: Word-based Morphology From Aristotle to Modern WP


• 17: Jaap Maat: General or Universal Grammar From Plato to Chomsky


• 18: James P. Blevins: American Descriptivism ('structuralism')


• 19: Robert Freidin: Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: a sketch


• 20: Giorgio Graffi: European Linguistics Since Saussure


• 21: Anna Siewierska: Functional and Cognitive Grammars


• 22: Patrick Hanks: Lexicography From Earliest Times to the Present


• 23: Pieter A. M. Seuren: The Logico-philosophical Tradition


• 24: Dirk Geeraerts: Lexical Semantics From Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics


• 25: Dirk Geeraerts: Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning


• 26: jacob L. Mey: A Brief Sketch of teh Historic Developments of Pragmatics


• 27: Linda R. Waugh and José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia, with Tom Hong Do, Kristen Michelson, and M'Balia Thomas: Meaning in Texts and Contexts


• 28: Kurt R. Jankowsky: Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics Since the Eighteenth Century


• 29: Ana Deumert: Language, Culture, and Society


• 30: Alan Garnham: Language, The Mind, and The Brain


• 31: Kirsten Malmkjaer: Translation: the intertranslatability of languages; translation and language teaching


• 32: Graeme Hirst: Computational Linguistics


• 33: Tony McEnery and Andrew hardie: The History of Corpus Linguistics


• 34: Esa Itkonen: Philosophy of Linguistics


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Keith Allan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. His books include Linguistic Meaning (two volumes, Routledge 1986), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), and The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics, Second edition (Equinox, 2010). He is co-author with Kate Burridge of Euphemism and Dysphemism (OUP, 1991) and Forbidden Words (CUP, 2006) and co-editor with K. M. Jaszczolt of the Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (CUP, 2012).