History of linguistics: Nineteenth-century linguistics (v. 4)

This fourth volume in a five-part study, shows how linguistics came into its own as an independent discipline separated from philosophical and literary studies and enjoyed an intellectual and institutional success tied to the research ethos of the new universities, until it became a model for other humanistic subjects which aimed at scientific status. The linguistics of the 19th century abandon earlier theoretical discussions in favour of a more empirical and historical approach, using new methods to compare and to investigate their history.