Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Contents. Chronological List of Contents. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics. Glossary. Index

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 PA a'aini (4th or 5th century BCE) 2 Plato (c. 428/7--c. 349/7 BCE) 3 Aristotle (384--322 BCE) 4 Marcus Terentius Varro (116--27 BCE) 5 Language in the Bible 6 Aelius Donatus (4th century BCE) and Priscian of Caesarea (6th century CE) 7 SA"bawayhi (d. c. 796) 8 'The First Grammarian' (12th century) 9 The Speculative Grammarians (fl. c. 1250--1400) 10 King Sejong the Great (1397--1450) 11 Antoine Arnauld (1612--1694) and Claude Lancelot (1615--1695) 12 John Wilkins (1614--1672) 13 John Locke (1632--1704) 14 Samuel Johnson (1709--1784) 15 Aetienne Bonnot, Abbe of Condillac (1714--1780) 16 Johan Gottfried Herder (1744--1803) 17 August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767--1845) and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772--1829) 18 Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767--1835) 19 Jakob Grimm (1785--1863) 20 Franz Bopp (1791--1867) 21 Friedrich Max MA ller (1823--1900) 22 Paul Broca (1824--1880) 23 William Dwight Whitney (1827--1894) 24 James A. H. Murray (1837--1915) 25 Henry Sweet (1845--1912) 26 Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845--1929) 27 Karl Brugmann (1849--1919) 28 Ferdinand de Saussure (1857--1913) 29 Otto Jespersen (1860--1943) 30 Daniel Jones (1881--1967) 31 Edward Sapir (1884--1939) 32 Leonard Bloomfield (1887--1949) 33 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889--1951) 34 John Rupert Firth (1890--1960) 35 Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896--1934) 36 Roman Jakobson (1896--1982) 37 Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897--1941) 38 Louis Hjelmslev (1899--1965) 39 J. L. Austin (1911--1960) 40 Kenneth L. Pike (1912--2000) 41 H. Paul Grice (1913--1988) 42 Joseph H. Greenberg (1915--2001) 43 Charles F. Hockett (1916--2000) 44 Roger William Brown (1925--1997) 45 M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) 46 William Labov (b. 1927) 47 Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) 48 Kenneth L. Hale (1934--2001) 49 James D. McCawley (1938--1999) 50 Deborah Cameron (b. 1958) Glossary

About the Author

Margaret Thomas is Professor of Linguistics, in the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College. She is past president of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, and the author of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition: A History (Routledge 2004).