从2000年秋完成定稿到现在,本书经功了整整两个寒暑,两个寒暑,其实也不过是“弹指一挥间”,但足以使原稿中的某引起新资料陈旧。两度春秋,已经使原稿中写进去的某些新事件和未来事件成了历史。在新世纪初的这两年里,中外语言学界发生的新事件数不胜数,当初定稿时的“将来时”已经成了“过去时”或“现在完成时”,我们在看校样时已经对相关文字进行了修改。

Chapter1Introduction:LanguageandLinguistics
1.1WhatIsLinguistics?
1.2IsLinguisticsaScience?
1.3BranchesofLinguistics
1.4LinguisticTheories:PastandPresent
Chapter2BriefHistoryofLinguistics:AnOverview
2.0Introduction
2.1LinguisticsinAncientTimes
2.2LinguisticsintheMiddleAges
2.3LinguisticsintheTenaissance
2.4Linguisticsinthe18thCentury
2.5Conclusion
Chapter3The19th-centuryHistoricalandComparative
3.0Introduction
3.1EarlyEffortsinHistoricalLinguistics
3.2Rask,Grmm,andVerner
3.3HunboldtandSchleicher
3.4Neogrammarians
3.5SanskritandhistoricalLinguistics
3.6Conclusion
Chapter4TheBeginningofModernLinguistics
4.0Introduction
4.1SaussuretheMan
4.2HistoricalBackground
4.3TheMakingoftheCourse
4.4SaussureandComparativeLinguistics
4.5Saussure'sTheotyofLanguage
4.6Saussure'sLegacy:Semiology
4.7Conclusion
Chapter**mericanDescriptiveandStructuralistLinguistics
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Chapter6ChomskyandTransformational-GenerativeGrammar
Chapter7EarlyFunctionalistLinguisticsTheories
Chapter8HallidayandSystenic-FunctionalGrammar
Chapter9LinguisticTheoriesintheLatterHalfofthe20thCentury
Chapter10ModernChineseLinguistics