The dynamics in (/of) the history of Linguistics

Positions and displacements of “layers”

Abstract

The article discusses in metahistoriographic terms the adoption of the notion of layers in historiography of linguistics researches in order to capture, in a dynamic view, the development of language studies. Our ultimate goal is to gain a better and more accurate understanding of what and how something happened or not (at a given time) in the history of language study.

Keywords: Historiography of linguistics. History of linguistics. Metahistoriography. Layers. Historiographic narrative.