900ページ超の鈍器本だが，ずっと通読したいと思っているハンドブックがある．Allan Keith 編の The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics である．つまみ食いはしてきたのだが，やはり本腰を入れて熟読したい．そのモチベーションを高めるために，目次を一覧しておく．
Front Matter
Introduction
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 (Word and Paradigm Models)
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 the Historic Development 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
End Matter
References
Index
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・ Keith, Allan, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics. Oxford: OUP, 2013.