THIS BOOK is an overview of American linguistics ever since its earliest beginnings, with its different trends: ANTHROPOLOGY (Franz Boas), ETHNOLOGISTS (Edward Sapir), BEHAVIORISM (Leonard Bloomfield), GENERATIVISM (Noam Chomsky), COGNITIVISM (Ronald Langacker), SOCIOLINGUISTICS (William Labov), BIBLE TRANSLATORS (Kenneth Pike), and LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS (Joseph Harold Greenberg).