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Article: Sylvain Auroux, E. F. K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh, editors: History of the Language Sciences/Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften/Histoire des sciences du langage.(Book Review)
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- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
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- January 1, 2004
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Sylvain Auroux, E. F. K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh, editors: History of the Language Sciences/Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften/Histoire des sciences du langage. (HSK 18), vol. 2. Berlin: Waiter de Gruyter, 2001. xxiii+911 pp. 398.00 [euro]. ISBN 3-11-016735-2.
This second volume of a three-volume project (cf. my review of vol. 1 in Linguistics 39, 2001) covers what can justifiably be called the center piece of the entire handbook: the 72 articles included here deal mainly with the 19th and 20th centuries, that is, with the classic foundations of the discipline. For this reason alone the volume deserves particular interest and is certain ...