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).

[A] fine resource for scholars and teachers who want to go beyond textbook treatments in introductory courses... Highly recommended.

• 1. The Origins and the Evolution of Language ; 2. The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics ; 3. History of the Study of Gesture ; 4. The History of Sign Language Linguistics ; 5. Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics ; 6. From IPA to PRAAT and Beyond ; 7. Nineteenth Century Study of Sound Change From Rask to Saussure ; 8. Discoverers of the Phoneme ; 9. A History of Sound Symbolism ; 10. East Asian Linguistics ; 11. Linguistics in India ; 12. From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic ; 13. From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's legacy to grammar ; 14. Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century ; 15. Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language ; 16. Word-based Morphology From Aristotle to Modern WP ; 17. General or Universal Grammar From Plato to Chomsky ; 18. American Descriptivism ('structuralism') ; 19. Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: a sketch ; 20. European Linguistics Since Saussure ; 21. Functional and Cognitive Grammars ; 22. Lexicography From Earliest Times to the Present ; 23. The Logico-philosophical Tradition ; 24. Lexical Semantics From Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics ; 25. Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning ; 26. A Brief Sketch of teh Historic Developments of Pragmatics ; 27. Meaning in Texts and Contexts ; 28. Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics Since the Eighteenth Century ; 29. Language, Culture, and Society ; 30. Language, The Mind, and The Brain ; 31. Translation: the intertranslatability of languages; translation and language teaching ; 32. Computational Linguistics ; 33. The History of Corpus Linguistics ; 34. Philosophy of Linguistics ; References ; Index

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).

[A] fine resource for scholars and teachers who want to go beyond textbook treatments in introductory courses... Highly recommended.

• 1. The Origins and the Evolution of Language ; 2. The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics ; 3. History of the Study of Gesture ; 4. The History of Sign Language Linguistics ; 5. Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics ; 6. From IPA to PRAAT and Beyond ; 7. Nineteenth Century Study of Sound Change From Rask to Saussure ; 8. Discoverers of the Phoneme ; 9. A History of Sound Symbolism ; 10. East Asian Linguistics ; 11. Linguistics in India ; 12. From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic ; 13. From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's legacy to grammar ; 14. Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century ; 15. Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language ; 16. Word-based Morphology From Aristotle to Modern WP ; 17. General or Universal Grammar From Plato to Chomsky ; 18. American Descriptivism ('structuralism') ; 19. Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: a sketch ; 20. European Linguistics Since Saussure ; 21. Functional and Cognitive Grammars ; 22. Lexicography From Earliest Times to the Present ; 23. The Logico-philosophical Tradition ; 24. Lexical Semantics From Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics ; 25. Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning ; 26. A Brief Sketch of teh Historic Developments of Pragmatics ; 27. Meaning in Texts and Contexts ; 28. Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics Since the Eighteenth Century ; 29. Language, Culture, and Society ; 30. Language, The Mind, and The Brain ; 31. Translation: the intertranslatability of languages; translation and language teaching ; 32. Computational Linguistics ; 33. The History of Corpus Linguistics ; 34. Philosophy of Linguistics ; References ; Index

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).

[A] fine resource for scholars and teachers who want to go beyond textbook treatments in introductory courses... Highly recommended.

• 1. The Origins and the Evolution of Language ; 2. The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics ; 3. History of the Study of Gesture ; 4. The History of Sign Language Linguistics ; 5. Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics ; 6. From IPA to PRAAT and Beyond ; 7. Nineteenth Century Study of Sound Change From Rask to Saussure ; 8. Discoverers of the Phoneme ; 9. A History of Sound Symbolism ; 10. East Asian Linguistics ; 11. Linguistics in India ; 12. From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic ; 13. From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's legacy to grammar ; 14. Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century ; 15. Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language ; 16. Word-based Morphology From Aristotle to Modern WP ; 17. General or Universal Grammar From Plato to Chomsky ; 18. American Descriptivism ('structuralism') ; 19. Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: a sketch ; 20. European Linguistics Since Saussure ; 21. Functional and Cognitive Grammars ; 22. Lexicography From Earliest Times to the Present ; 23. The Logico-philosophical Tradition ; 24. Lexical Semantics From Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics ; 25. Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning ; 26. A Brief Sketch of teh Historic Developments of Pragmatics ; 27. Meaning in Texts and Contexts ; 28. Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics Since the Eighteenth Century ; 29. Language, Culture, and Society ; 30. Language, The Mind, and The Brain ; 31. Translation: the intertranslatability of languages; translation and language teaching ; 32. Computational Linguistics ; 33. The History of Corpus Linguistics ; 34. Philosophy of Linguistics ; References ; Index