an international handbook on the evolution of the study of language from the beginnings to the present = Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften : ein Internationales Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Sprachforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenw
Writing in English, German, or French, more than 300 authors provide a historical description of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages within the relevant historical context. The gradually emerging institutions concerned with the study, organisation, documentation ...