{"product_id":"studies-in-formal-historical-linguistics-9789027702708","title":"Studies in Formal Historical Linguistics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): H. M. Hoenigswald\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese separate but related essays owe their existence to a combined concern for the workings of text criticism and historical linguistics and for the history of scholarship in these fields. On earlier occasions I have suggested certain views on the development of the so-called comparative method. Few things are more rewarding than to bring implicit preconceptions of the past and present out into the open, as I aimed to do then and as I aim to do now. This time existing tradition is treated as a body - without, I hope, being seriously distorting - and one small portion of its working assumptions is examined. My thanks go to the colleagues and students with whom I have had fruitful discussion, but especially to Zellig S. Harris, and to Henry Hiz who expended much more than just his excellent editorial care on these efforts. I only hope that I have learned as much from him as he has patiently tried to teach me. Lloyd W. Daly has kindly read parts of an earlier version and has contri- buted valuable suggestions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47592342552727,"sku":"9789027702708","price":11218.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789027702708.webp?v=1774977347","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/studies-in-formal-historical-linguistics-9789027702708","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}