Download or read book Linguistic Historiography written by E.F.K. Koerner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume brings together the author's most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the legacy of a number of major 20th-century scholars. Some of the chapters are revisions of previously published articles, which together with new materials have been welded into a coherent volume.