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1、After-Math:RereadingastheLastMan:TheArche-FossilandArche-TraceFerdinanddeSaussurehasanappendixwithasectionin“Linguisticpaleontology”andPictetinhisGeneralCourseonLinguistics.“Linguisticpaleontology”MauriceOlender,TheLanguagesofParadise:AryansandSemites,aMatchMadeinHeaventrans.ArthurGol
2、dhammer.HarvardUP,1992.AdolphePictet“Theyear1859,whichsawthepubliationofDarwin’sOriginofSpecies,wasalsotheyearinwhichamonumental“essayonlinguisitcpaleontology”appearedunderthetitleLesoriginsindoeuropeenesoulesAryasprimitifs(Indo-EuropeanOrigins,orthePrimitveArays).Itsauthor,AdolphePit
3、ctet(1799-1855),belongedtooneoftheleadingfamiliesofCalvinistGenvea....HismethodwasthatofalinguisticethnographerinsearchofwordscapableofbringingtheprimitieveAryasbacktolife.WhatdidtheAryaspassontotheirdescendants—amongwhomPictetcountedhimself—otherthantheirlanguage?Languageistheonlyway
4、torescueAryasfromtheobscurityofcenturies.Pictetthereforeembarksonajourneyof“l(fā)inguisticpaleontology,”trackingthedestinyofwords.Hismission:toreviveIndo-EuropeanmeomoriesinaChrisitanEuropethatisinsearchofanevenbrighterfuture....Takingashismodelnewtechniquesinanalyzingfossils,hehopedtogiv
5、evoicetthevestigesoftheArianvocabularyasotherscientistsreconstitutedthelifeofananimal—itsfeeinghabitsandotherbehavior—formafewbones:“Forwordslastaslongasbones,andjustasatoothimplicitlycontainspartsofan175animal’shistory,asinglewordcanleadtothewholeseriesofideasassociatedwithitsformati
6、on,Thusthenamelinguisticpaleontologyisideallysuitedtothesciencewehaveinmind,”(p.14).”(93;95;96)Ahistoryofphilologyismissing.Notaneedtobefilled—anotherretracing,unfoldingnarrative.Readthelackofthehistory,evenasvaluableasaconventionalonewouldbe,assymptomaticofablindnesstopublicationhist
7、ory,tofiles,tothearchive,retrieval,storage,andsoon,duetofantasyofreanimation—bringingbacktolife.Languageasrepositoryofprimitiveimagrey,p97.Revisedandaugmented2009.“Fossils”ChristineKenneally,TheFirstWord:TheSearchfortheOriginsofLanguage.ThisbookgrowsoutofKenneally'sconvictionthatinves
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