Jan Baudouin De Courtenay's contribution to Linguistic Theory

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ID3955280
AuthorsArleta Adamska-Sałaciak (0000-0003-1472-6956, Adam Mickiewicz University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume25
Issue1-2
Pages25-60
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoriographia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/hl.25.1-2.05ada
OpenAlexW2054836534
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

The extent of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay's (1845-1929) contribution to general linguistic theory is still hard to assess. He never wrote a major synthetic work, nor has the bulk of his production been translated into English. Thanks primarily to Jakobson, at least his formative influence on modern phonology is generally acknowledged. Fewer linguists are aware of the relevance of Baudouin's teaching for the study of language change. His conceptualisation of the nature of change, its causes and goals, and the role played in it by the language system, all seem of more than merely historical interest to the theoretically-minded diachronic linguist

Formative assessment · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Phonology · Political science · Relevance (law · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Law · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology

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