Coseriu 100, 50, 20 – What Numbers Count (for) in a Life in Science
Coseriu 100, 50, 20 – What Numbers Count (for) in a Life in Science

Summary/Abstract: Eugenio Coseriu (1921-2002) emerged in full force on the international scene in 1958 with a work that was to set the blueprint for the purport and overarching themes of his life-long scientific endeavors: Sincronía, diacronía e historia. El problema del cambio lingüístico. Katsuhiko Tanaka, one of the cotranslators of the first Japanese edition (1981), himself a reputed linguist, points out in his explanatory study that this book is to be viewed not merely as a work in the field of linguistics, but rather as ―an efficient weapon that enables one to deepen one‘s own reflection on the fundamental issues of man, language, society and culture‖ (Tanaka 1981: 2431 ). Tanaka and the other co-translator, Takashi Kamei, who was the first to propose the idea that Coseriu needs to be considered ―a linguist of/for the 21st century‖, converge in assessing the Coserian paradigm as a theoretical outlook truly ahead of its time, whose genuine reception and full development can only be effected under the aegis of a future century.

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