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Matthews, Peter – 2001
This book is a concise history of structural linguistics, charting its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For structuralists, a language is a self-contained and tightly organized system whose history is of changes from one state of the system to another. This…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Intonation, Language Research, Language Universals
