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Lanes to Language

Linguistic Bike Rides in and around Leipzig

Autor(en) / Herausgeber
Gereon Müller
Sprache(n)
Englisch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.06.2025
Verarbeitung
Broschur
Umfang
313 Seiten
ISBN
978-3-96023-657-3
Preis
24.90 €
Dokumente / Vorschau
keine
Lieferstatus
lieferbar
Lanes to Language

Lanes to Language
Autor(en) / Herausgeber
Gereon Müller
Sprache(n)
Englisch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.06.2025
Verarbeitung
Broschur
Umfang
313 Seiten
ISBN
978-3-96023-657-3
Preis
24.90 €
Dokumente / Vorschau
keine
Lieferstatus
lieferbar
Beschreibung
This book is a linguistic bike tour guide for Leipzig and its surroundings. It contains twenty scenic cycling routes in the flat Leipzig Basin, each of which focuses on a scholar who studied or worked here. The tours not only highlight places associated with famous linguists; they also target many cultural and natural attractions.

In the 1870s, Leipzig became the world centre of linguistics. It retained this role for several decades, and continued to be highly visible after the Chomskyan revolution beginning in the 1950s. Based on the groundwork laid by Karl Brugmann and August Leskien, many important linguists spent substantial amounts of time in Leipzig, to study, carry out research, write a dissertation, finish a habilitation, or work as a professor, among them Ferdinand de Saussure, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Eduard Sievers, Hermann Paul, Leonard Bloomfield, Lucien Tesnière, Nikolaj Trubetzkoy, and Manfred Bierwisch. These and several other scholars featured in the present volume played a decisive role in shaping the field of linguistics as we know it today, and the book takes great care to introduce their main ideas and discoveries.

The twenty chapters thus combine, in a highly original way, descriptions of linguistically oriented bike rides with accounts of major developments in the history of language science.
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This book is a linguistic bike tour guide for Leipzig and its surroundings. It contains twenty scenic cycling routes in the flat Leipzig Basin, each of which focuses on a scholar who studied or worked ...
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Gereon Müller, Linguistik, Leipzig