Qualche osservazione sulla storiografia linguistica

Abstract

The paper briefly discusses the problems and methods of language
historiography thematizing Saussure’s distinction between matière and objet.
A number of representative nexuses are also commented on: the history of
the phoneme, the supposed birth of scientific linguistics,the question of precursors,
the relation between structuralism and phenomenology, the relation
between language theories and research practices.