The Discovery
of Language

The Danish comparatist HOLGER PEDERSEN on how nineteenth-century philology became a science. Copyright 1931 by Harvard; translation copyright 1959 by JOHN WEBSTER SPARGO; Midland Book edition 1962 by arrangement with Harvard University Press; this copy the FIFTH PRINTING, 1972. ISBN 0-253-20040-7, $2.95, Midland MB40. Spargo dedicates the translation to the memory of H. C. G. VON JAGEMANN, for thirty-five years professor of Germanic philology at Harvard. Together with Harris and Saussure it gives the collection its pre-generative spine — where the discipline came from before Chomsky.