Another Short History of Linguistics (1)

As there is endless words and stories, but our target is linguistics, so from now on we will talk about some linguistics alternatively and occasionally.

Until now, it is hard for a scholar to write the linguistic history. The most difficult thing is without a solid linguistic theory, any description of linguistic history would fall into a ‘data oriented’ narration. While to be a branch of study, the necessary thing must to have the theory or ‘theory oriented’ study. Without that it would be no different with a part of or an accessory of normal history. The western linguists know these very well, but no one would like degrade themselves to open eyes on other languages outside the Indo-European language. If there is a linguistic theory in the world, it would apply to every language. If there is no such theory, why bothering to pursue it?  In recent years, too many articles talking about various direction of linguistic study, but most of them only have a good name such as scientific linguistics, historic linguistics, philosophical linguistics, theoretical linguistics, universal linguistics etc. Special adjectives to qualify linguistics kept emerging into our view, but linguistics itself have nothing changed or we may say there were changes but linguists didn’t notice. For this reason, I try to describe linguistic history by my ‘Linguistics Law’  or we may say that using my ‘linguistic law’ as canon to measure any evolution of the history of language.

However Robert H. Robins had a book named ‘A Short History of Linguistics’, so what I can name my article else besides this one?