Table of Contents

The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and its Prizes.- Nineteenth-Century Linguistic and Social Science: Their Reflection in the Prix Volney Competition I. The Life and Work of Constantin-François Chassebœuf, Comte de Volney.- Nineteenth-Century Linguistic and Social Science: Their Reflection in the Prix Volney Competition II. The French Academies and Academic Prizegiving.- Nineteenth-Century Linguistic and Social Science: Their Reflection in the Prix Volney Competition III. The History of the Prix Volney in Linguistics.- Transcription, Transliteration and the Idea of a Universal Alphabet.- Chronology of Scherer’s Life.- Scherer’s Prizewinning Essay of 1822.- Scherer’s Prizewinning Essay of 1823.- Chronology of Ackermann’s Life.- The Published Form of Ackermann’s 1837 Essay: Essai sur l’analyse physique des langues ou de la formation et de l’usage d’un alphabet méthodique.- The Prix Volney and French Studies.- Studies in Dialectology for the Prix Volney.- Life of Pierre Joseph Proudhon.- Chronology of the Life of Proudhon.- A Bibliography of Proudhon’s Writings.- Proudhon’s “Recherches sur les catégories grammaticales”.- “Recherches sur les Catégories grammaticales, et sur Quelques origines de la langue française” (1839).- Contributors.- Sources of Illustrations.

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