This book is a sequel to Geoffrey Sampson's well-received textbook Schools of Linguistics. Linguistics changed around the millennium; the advent of cheap air travel and the internet meant that geographical distance ceased to be a barrier to scholarly interaction, so new developments are no longer grouped into separate schools located in different places. Consequently, the best way to show how linguistics is flowering in our time is through a sampler displaying individual examples of recent advances. Sampson offers such a sampler, describing two dozen of the most interesting innovations in the subject to have emerged in the present century. And he includes a few looks back at how the approaches described in Schools of Linguistics panned out in the closing years of the old century, before they evolved intoor made way fortoday's more realistic and more diverse linguistics.
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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 13 Sep 2024
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781036412593
About Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson graduated in Oriental Studies from Cambridge University UK. After completing his graduate study in linguistics and informatics at Yale University USA and a research fellowship at Queen's College Oxford UK he held teaching appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and other British institutions interspersed with sabbaticals at universities in Switzerland and South Africa and secondments to industrial research. After retiring from his chair at Sussex University UK where he had headed its AI department he spent several years as research fellow in linguistics at the University of South Africa. Sampson has published books and articles on most branches of linguistics as well as on literary political and philosophical subjects; he is particularly known for identifying the fallacies in Noam Chomsky's theories. Sampson's books include Schools of Linguistics (1980) The Language Instinct Debate (revised edition 2005) Writing Systems (second edition 2015) and Voices from Early China (2020).