BookAuthors: E. F. K. Koerner (2002)
This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics and also addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics. Topics covered include:
- The sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis';
- Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique générale;
- The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography;
- The Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics;
- William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America.
Toward a History of American Linguistics will be invaluable reading for academics and advanced students within the fields of linguistics and the history of linguistics. 
