Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner''s minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field''s founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some o...