Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Briefing Key issues and organisational features of this book.- Prelude Framing the problem of language and meaning.- Part I Traditions of language study: Graeco-Roman vis-à-vis Sinitic.- Chapter 1 Language, writing and metaphors for language.- Snapshot 1 Dialectic; Analogy v. anomaly.- Chapter 2 Language in education and the foundations of linguistic scholarship.- Snapshot 2 Ordering of words; Language as manifestation of the way.- Chapter 3 The discovery of language history.- Snapshot 3 Characters and order of universe; Grammatical form as expression of mind.- Chapter 4 From philology to linguistics.- Interlude Establishing a modern paradigm.- Part II The making of modern grammatics: developing tools for the analysis of wording.- Chapter 5 From “(single) articulation” to “double articulation”: meaning ↔ wording ↔ sound.- Chapter 6 “Parts of speech” and “word classes”: defining basic categories for grammatical analysis.- Chapter 7 “Word grammar” and “clause grammar”: separating morphological from syntactic patterning.- Chapter 8 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations: structure and system.- Postlude The long 20th century of linguistics.- Debriefing The history of linguistics and the study of language.- References.