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Linguistics in Britain: Personal Histories

Keith Brown (Editor), Vivien Law (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-23476-0
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336 pages
June 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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This is a collection of ‘linguistic autobiographies' by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.

  • Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists.
  • Provides an overview of the rapid growth of linguistics in the last 50 years.
  • Reflects on the achievements of British linguistics since the Second World War.

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