- Support is lent to this view by the retrospective collections of articles and the sketches of aspects of modern linguistic history which have been appearing in the last few years. An example of the former is the volume Readings in Linguistics [RIL], edited by Martin Joos (Washington, 1957); among the latter may be cited the papers presented to a symposium entitled “History of Linguistics,” at the American Anthropological Association meetings in 1962, published in Anthropological Linguistics V: 1 (1963).
- A beginning is made in the symposium cited in footnote 1. A chapter in John T. Waterman, Perspectives in Linguistics (Chicago, 1963), is devoted to the twentieth century; see my review, forthcoming in Language.
- It is not difficult to make a case for the argument that Boas himself did not fully escape the dangers of this proposition, but this is beyond our present concern.
- For example, “every single language has a definite and limited group of sounds,” Handbook of American Indian Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 40, Part I (Washington, 1911), p. 16. s op. cit., p. 63.
- This is quite clear in his An Introduction to the Study of Language (New York, 1914).
- The method is described in Sapir's famous paper, “The Psychological Reality of Phonemes,” most readily available in D. G. Mandelbaum, ed., Selected Writings of Edward Sapir (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1951), pp. 46–60.
- Notably that by W. Freeman Twaddell, in On Defining the Phoneme, Language Monograph No. 16 (1935), reprinted in RIL 55–79.
- Selected Writings of Edward Sapir, p. 36.
- Martin Joos in RIL 96. It is unfair to call this view “Boasian”, as Joos does.
- This is evident throughout in his Language, especially Chapters 2 and 9.
- Joos, page v.
- Charles F. Hockett, “Two Models of Grammatical Description,” Word X (1954) 210–234, p. 211; reprinted in RIL 386–399.
- See for example Zellig S. Harris, Methods in Structural Linguistics (Chicago, 1951), p. 3; “the procedures…are merely ways of arranging the original data”; p. 366, “The over-all purpose of work in descriptive linguistics is to obtain a compact one-one representation of the stock of utterances in the corpus.”
- This may be clearly traced in the papers reprinted in RIL.
- American Speech XVI (1941) 278–284, reprinted in RIL 93–96.
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