This is a difficult book. For specialists in Slavic linguistics, the familiar material of Old Church Slavic appears under shockingly novel light. For theoretical linguists, this work presents a construct unlike any other with the word grammar in the title. For all readers, the grammar is difficult because the complex formal appa-ratus is stated declaratively, not procedurally, and thus its vali…
This book is primarily concerned with the history of linguistics, but it is notsimplyaboutthe history of linguistics. For one thing, positions are taken belowon issues which (while they arise in a historical context) are discussed for theirown sake, such as the motivation for assuming a significant level of phoneticrepresentation in linguistics. Further, while the text traces the development of…