Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. 1. The Multiple Ambiguities of American Linguistic Identity; 3. 2. 'The American Whitney' and his European Heritages and Legacies; 4. 3. 20th-Century Linguistics in America and Europe; 5. 4. The Sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'; 6. 5. The Origins of American Sociolinguistics; 7. 6. Bloomfield's and Chomsky's Readings of the Cours de linguistique generale; 8. 7. How Structuralist Was 'American Structuralism'?; 9. 8. How Behaviourist Was Verbal Behavior ?; 10. 9. The Popular (Mis)interpretations of Whorf and Chomsky: What they had in common, and why they had to happen; 11. References; 12. Index