I speak, therefore I am : seventeen snapshots of language

Table of Contents ; Preface: Choice, Then Order, Then Chance, Finally Only Light; 1. God; 2. Plato; 3. Aristotle; 4. Marcus Terentius Varro; 5. Roger Bacon; 6. Descartes; 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; Finale; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography.