A Paradigm Lost: The linguistic thought of Mikołaj Kruszewski (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)

The general theory of language of Mikołaj Kruszweski (1851-1887) is, this book argues, a “lost paradigm” in the history of linguistics. The concept of 'paradigm' is understood in a broadly construed Kuhnian sense, and its applicability to linguistics as a science is examined.