I Speak, Therefore I am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language

CONTENTS

Preface: Choice, Then Order, Then Chance, Finally Only Light

4. Marcus Terentius Varro

7. Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot

8. Sir William Jones

9. Hermann Osthoff and E. Karl Brugmann

10. Ferdinand de Saussure

11. Bertrand Russell

12. Martin Joos

13. Roman Jakobson

14. Joseph Greenberg

15. Eric H. Lenneberg

16. Niels Jerne

17. Noam Chomsky

Acknowledgments