Knowledge Commons | Stefan Ketelsen | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/stefanket/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Stefan Ketelsen is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:58:22 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 de05d119a37d89269d89604496fdefe1 Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the General Linguistics Forum Committee in the forum History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-linguistics-and-language-study/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-general-linguistics-forum-committee/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:19:43 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Study and Linguistics forums, please help support the presence of linguistics and language study in the MLA by nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. We currently have two open positions on the committee; one member would begin serving immediately and continue t…[Read more]

]]> 445fb1957161a9fab15e523edfbe1c75 Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeschichtsschreibung in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897190/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Alle Sprachen ändern sich, solange sie existieren, das weiß die historisch-vergleichende Sprachforschung seit mindestens 150 Jahren. Dennoch gibt es nach wie vor viele Kontroversen darum, wie Sprachen sich ändern, warum sie sich ändern, und ob diese Änderung nicht am Ende doch einen stetigen Verfall darstellt. In der Vorlesung werden wir deta…[Read more]

]]> 0 00d4dd0241f2e8ca804bdddca82e4ba2 Matthew Scarborough deposited Balto-Slavic Historical Linguistics (MA) (Lecture Notes) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894588/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:06 -0400 This document is an English translation of Thomas Olander's Danish lecture notes used in the MA Elective Indo-European Language course (with specialisation in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics) taught in the Fall Semester 2023 in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen (HIEK0006EU LIN;…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5dd1af02ff3d6ed1580220f9b3d679b Matthew Scarborough deposited Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837121/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:25:01 -0400 Since H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more]

]]> 0 f921c0c60703d4ed6bb637f13af1a79d Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachwandel (Seminar) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834436/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:25:24 -0500 In dem Seminar wird Sprachwandel aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet.

]]> 0 3af81279bb3312f1694d7cb2c9dec892 Johann-Mattis List deposited Computational Historical Linguistics in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829667/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:24:27 -0500 In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

]]> 0 8633cbfb2092772ead953f03aeab5ee1 Johann-Mattis List deposited Formal and quantitative approaches to historical language comparison in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1820231/ Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:25:34 -0500 Lecture, given at the Fifth Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics (Università di Pavia, 2022-09-05/09)

]]> 0 90313a65b0af9128d3212daf5db49277 Dr Mark Perkins deposited Linguistics and Classical Theories of Rhetoric: Connections and Continuity in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792124/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 02:23:42 -0400 The Connections between ancient approaches to rhetoric, as found in Plato and Aristotle, the prime ancient theorists of rhetoric, and modern linguistic approaches to register and genre theory, as in Hallidayan linguistics, show continuity of thought across the centuries. They also suggest that there may be such things as universal rhetorical…[Read more]

]]> 0 d75a1b146ec628e68860f71096f182ef Johann-Mattis List deposited Annotating cognates in phylogenetic studies of South-East Asian languages in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785119/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 02:25:33 -0400 Compounding and derivation are frequent in many language families. As a consequence, words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing only a few but not all morphemes. While partial cognates do not constitute a problem for the phonological reconstruction of individual morphemes, they are problematic when it comes to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d784cb7a6a5dd72ece6c3570c6371462 Justin M. Power deposited Did deaf education and the emergence of American Sign Language trigger the decline of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language? in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784975/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:24:09 -0400 In discussions of the history of American Sign Language (ASL), a village sign language—Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)—has been identified as a possible contributor to ASL and to its differentiation from French Sign Language (LSF; cf. Groce 1985: 73-74, Lane et al 2011: 76, Poole Nash 2015: 611). On this account, MVSL contributed to ASL t…[Read more]

]]> 0 7728f095039dd9a71437e11e21b8c9f4 Justin M. Power deposited Young children and the emergence of ASL: The age distribution of students at the American School for the Deaf, 1817–1867 in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784973/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:23:41 -0400 Young children are thought to play a unique role in the emergence and evolution of language. In research on language acquisition by a deaf child of late learners of ASL as well as in research on the emergence of new signed languages, young children have shown the ability to impose systematicity on relatively less systematic linguistic input…[Read more]

]]> 0 e12df53528e01b64ae1abf76bc87ed73 Johann-Mattis List deposited Of Word Families and Language Trees: New and Old Metaphors in Studies on Language History in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783960/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:23:45 -0400 For a long time, metaphors have played an important role in depicting language history. In this study, we contrast early metaphors on language history, such as the family tree or the wave model, with recent metaphors that were popularized after the quantitative turn, such as forests of trees or phylogenetic networks. Speculating about metaphors…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0ce10d2332c82b5fdcc985e2ade5ead Mark Perkins deposited Tam o' Shanter: A New Translation (Slide Set) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1768313/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:23:51 -0500 This slide set includes a translation into English of Tam o' Shanter by Robert Burns. The aim of the translation is to preserve the original poetic effect of the poem written in Scots. The slide set is intended for academic and educational purposes, as well as personal enjoyment.

]]> 0 c22de8564780e66d0f4c3838f9923cd7 Mark Perkins deposited Tam o' Shanter: A Nordic Tinge in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765928/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:29:06 -0500 Tam o’ Shanter, a great narrative poem written by Roberts Burns, is written in Scots and as such is difficult to access by standard English speakers and non-natives alike. This monograph offers an account of the language of Tam as characterised by a significant number of distinctive lexical and phonological items related to Old Norse. It is c…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bb9afa121b1c1de0fee848ec23b3b03 Mark Perkins deposited Tam o' Shanter: A New Translation in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765923/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:28:34 -0500 Tam o’ Shanter, a great narrative poem written by Roberts Burns, is written in Scots and as such is difficult to access by standard English speakers and non-natives alike. Old Norse influences form an essential part of the fabric of Tam, and the poem can only be fully understood when these are identified and described. This article presents a n…[Read more]

]]> 0 6974058654cb09a362c39e47263a8fa0 Johann-Mattis List deposited Correcting a Bias in TIGER Rates Resulting from High Amounts of Invariant and Singleton Cognate Sets in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761862/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 02:24:26 -0500 In a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]

]]> 0 58ec3e21a38da5137b3de45da4fe34cf James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748707/ Mon, 09 Aug 2021 02:24:13 -0400 Focusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]

]]> 0 0608af28522b2e8d8cdbdc165db0ccb9 Johann-Mattis List deposited Evolutionary Aspects of Language Change in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748547/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 02:23:42 -0400 While it has been known for a long time that human languages can change in various ways, it was only in the early 19th century that scholars realized that certain aspects of language change proceed in a surprisingly regular manner, allowing us to reconstruct historical stages of languages which have never been documented in written sources. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 51d238c9f1a1c8107ff30526871e92c9 Johann-Mattis List deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733513/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:24:26 -0400 Der computergestützte Sprachvergleich (Wu et al. 2020) hat zum Ziel, Sprachvielfalt und Sprachgeschichte mit Hilfe einer Mischung aus computerbasierten und nicht-automatischen aber formalen Methoden zu untersuchen und dadurch grundlegende Fragen zur Entwicklung spezifischer Sprachfamilien (Sagart et al. 2019) oder zur Typologie von Sprachvielfalt…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e0668d262045763f4acd88cf76bf471 Raf Van Rooy deposited The early adopters of Neo-Latin dialectus – overview of sources in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726088/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:23:38 -0500 This file contains an overview of the early adopters of the Neo-Latin term dialectus, together with sample passages in which the term features as well as information on the publication data of the works in which the term appears. The overview also offers information on the social, geographical, and scholarly background of the early adopters.

]]> 0 46aee2938620fa342fb99a8ad7f9b4fb Raf Van Rooy deposited De Grieken, babbelziek volk! Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), lidwoordhater in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723376/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:29:40 -0500 Het Latijn heeft geen lidwoord zoals bijvoorbeeld het Nederlands (de, het) of het Oudgrieks (ho, hē, tó), en dat vond de 16de-eeuwse humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger prima. De grootse taal van Rome kon het makkelijk stellen zonder dat pietluttige woordje. Toegegeven, het kan soms nuttig zijn om aan te geven dat je een specifiek object op het oog h…[Read more]

]]> 0 9050fc6eecf9abf0c36326c80d781179 Raf Van Rooy deposited Wanneer Latijn niet volstaat: John Palsgrave, schrijver van het eerste handboek Frans (1530), en het Grieks in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723374/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:29:32 -0500 Het Latijn, de taal van de Romeinen, heeft lange tijd zijn stempel gedrukt op de taalkunde en taalbeschrijving, niet alleen in de oudheid, maar ook in de middeleeuwen en de Renaissance, wanneer men de talige diversiteit van de wereld gestaag ontdekte. De meest uiteenlopende talen werden met wisselend succes gegoten in de mal van het Latijnse…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d27935c72417e4f2cad7937ad39d59f Raf Van Rooy deposited The Art of Spanish in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723370/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:29:13 -0500 1492 was a momentous year for Spain. The Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, leading to the continent’s largescale colonization by Europeans. Columbus did so by order of the so-called Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, while actually trying to discover a new travel r…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd71fc003416bb898ec7e862357a1f2d Raf Van Rooy deposited An ablative for the Greeks? Frischlin vs. Crusius on grammar (II) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723359/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:24:05 -0500 In the new “Ad fontes” feature of Adendros, I want to offer English translations of short source texts or text excerpts from the history of (Greek) language studies which struck me as particularly interesting, enlightening, or enticing.

Today: part two of a grammar dispute between Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin and Martin Crusius, two six…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5da9a0a953b069c88e3eecea9507517 Raf Van Rooy deposited Hadrianus Amerotius: de eerste Griekse grammaticus van de Lage Landen in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723357/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:23:57 -0500 Vandaag is het exact 500 jaar geleden dat Hadrianus Amerotius’ (ca. 1495-1560) Compendium Graecae grammatices te Leuven verscheen in het atelier van Dirk Martens.

]]> 0 151438e6670e774068adfdff4571a62c Johann-Mattis List deposited Benefits of reflex prediction. A case study of Western Kho-Bwa in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717894/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 02:23:57 -0500 While analysing lexical data of Western Kho-Bwa languages of the Sino-Tibetan or Trans-
Himalayan family with the help of a computer-assisted approach for historical language
comparison, we observed gaps in the data where one or more varieties lacked forms for certain
concepts. We employed a new workflow, combining manual and automated steps,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1798d20032c2928269c99e2c62b78f7e Johann-Mattis List deposited Linguistic Diversity: Empirical Perspectives in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711214/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:24:11 -0400 When comparing the more than 7000 human language varieties spoken today, one encounters a huge diversity in all domains of language, ranging from phonology via morphology up to syntax and pragmatics. In the seminar, we explored how language diversity can be studied empirically. In order to do so, we looked at linguistic approaches to the study of…[Read more]

]]> 0 5155da63b8b816e3de41dc384e7376bd Johann-Mattis List deposited A digital, retro-standardized edition of the Tableaux phonétiques des patois Suisses romands (TPPSR) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708548/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:24:05 -0400 This study presents a digital, retro-standardized edition of the Tableaux Phonétiques des Patois Suisses Romands (TPPSR), an early collection of lexical dialect data of the Suisse romande, which was compiled by Louis Gauchat, Jules Jeanqaquet, and Ernest Tappolet in the beginning of the 20th century and later published in 1925. While the plan of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7594a7b04b87f9cb67184f5d9453ed27 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-linguistics-and-language-study/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-5/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:17:20 -0400 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 - August 29

I'd like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt's novel Bottom's Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 45d4b9c240abedf587033352f8fe7c12 Maheswari D deposited தமிழ் இலக்கியங்களில் பெண்ணிய கட்டமைப்பும் கட்டுடைப்பும்/CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF FEMINISM IN TAMIL LITERATURE, VOL – 1 in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682130/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:40:50 -0400 This is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 3 : VOL – 1, FEBRUARY 2020.

]]> 0 6d1c7dd63f088413d539b23a985ff2a7 Dirk Schmidt deposited A Speech Corpus of Dharamsala Tibetan in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677983/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:25:31 -0500 In 2016-2017, a 10-person team worked for 3 months with the goal of creating a multi-use, balanced corpus, similar to the Brown Corpus (BROWN Corpus search online). The speech section of the completed Nanhai Corpus—named for its sponsors, the Nanhai Nunnery of Taiwan—is a 289,497 word corpus of collected, transcribed, and word-split natural spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bdfef8e2318d7d0b8df743b363e00cf James McElvenny deposited La grammaticalisation et la circulation internationale des idées linguistiques in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1675328/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:25:21 -0500 Research into grammaticalization has an established genealogy, which records the birth of the term “grammaticalization” in more or less its present-day sense with Antoine Meillet (1866–1936), but recognizes an intellectual lineage extending back to at least the Enlightenment. Among the immediate predecessors of Meillet, Georg von der Gabel…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd67bb28d4102248ea34bf395c5cd018 Johann-Mattis List deposited Annual contributions to the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks III in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670903/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:25:44 -0500 This is a summary of 12 contributions made by me for the blog "The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks" in 2018. The contributions are shared in form of a PDF document with a table of contents that allows for a quick search of the contributions and offers also the direct links to the blog.

]]> 0 b6d21066b5d082cd49981fb83ff0da77 Francesco Giancane deposited La «nuova filologia». Precursori e protagonisti in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663708/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:26:00 -0400 Catalogue of the Exhibition held in Pisa in October 2015.

]]> 0 f426e678fd1f909e2aaccf1b8e480bbd Justin M Power deposited Untangling vertical and horizontal processes in the evolution of handshapes in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662463/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:26:23 -0400 This brief blog post discusses qualitative methods for identifying horizontal processes in the evolution of sign language handshapes in manual alphabets using phylogenetic network methods.

]]> 0 9f296b66b41d7073ff4e2a09cdb076b4 Johann-Mattis List deposited Pragmatics of Language Evolution in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660623/ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:25:36 -0400 The fact that “all languages evolve, as long as they exist” (Schleicher 1863: 18f) has been long known to linguists and does not surprise us anymore. The reasons why all language change constantly, however, is still not fully understood. What we know, however, is that language usage must be at the core of language evolution. It is the dynamics amo…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0eea483530fa385f20ecd6fa7774a46 Johann-Mattis List deposited Save the trees in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659176/ Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:25:47 -0400 Skepticism regarding the tree model has a long tradition in historical linguistics. Although scholars have emphasized that the tree model and its long-standing counterpart, the wave theory, are not necessarily incompatible, the opinion that family trees are unrealistic and should be completely abandoned in the field of historical linguistics has…[Read more]

]]> 0 7da269f6ebcdba4949b0f7986560668d Johann-Mattis List deposited Annual contributions to the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks II in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658011/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:26:32 -0400 This is a summary of 12 contributions made by me for the blog "The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks" in 2017. The contributions are shared in form of a PDF document with a table of contents that allows for a quick search of the contributions and offers also the direct links to the blog.

]]> 0 17059e8cb926e675d4d6ec27a4254fbd Johann-Mattis List deposited Annual contributions to the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks I in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658006/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:25:48 -0400 This is a summary of 12 contributions made by me for the blog "The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks" in 2016. The contributions are shared in form of a PDF document with a table of contents that allows for a quick search of the contributions and offers also the direct links to the blog.

]]> 0 6cd2caa891e0e6f7a59727899b384131 Johann-Mattis List deposited Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641792/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:41:05 -0400 The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the world’s largest
and most prominent families, spoken by nearly 1.4 billion people.
Despite the importance of the Sino-Tibetan languages, their pre-history remains controversial, with ongoing debate about when
and where they originated. To shed light on this debate we
develop a database of c…[Read more]

]]> 0 375528a9060fb9428c4c55306957f315 Johann-Mattis List deposited An automated framework for fast cognate detection and Bayesian phylogenetic inference in computational historical linguistics in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641636/ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:27:17 -0400 We present a fully automated workflow for phylogenetic reconstruction on large datasets, consisting of two novel methods, one for fast detection of cognates and one for fast Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Our results show that the methods take less than a few minutes to process language families that have so far required large amounts of time…[Read more]

]]> 0 b749816b27a3c6dc2d536b63c89c9fe0 Jesse Arlen deposited ‘Ո՞ւր են բանալիներդ’ An Innovative Method for Teaching Western Armenian in Diaspora. in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640991/ Mon, 27 May 2019 16:25:26 -0400 On applying the language learning method "Where Are Your Keys?" (WAYK) to the teaching of Western Armenian at a community weekend school.

]]> 0 87e3519b7ba5205feb9c3fb698a60706 Johann-Mattis List deposited Towards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics. History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635180/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:27:59 -0400 Blog post, published with the blog "History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences". Here shared in form of a paper draft. Please cite as:

List, Johann-Mattis. 2018. Towards a history of concept list compilation in historical linguistics. History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences. http://hiphilangsci.net/2018/10/31/concept-list-compilation/

]]> 0 bd50f577d0f03a104f4569b2198d8492 Jan Rijkhoff deposited Relationelle adjektiver på dansk / Relational adjectives in Danish in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631448/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:43:11 -0500 ENGLISH ABSTRACT Due to their special properties, relational adjectives (in particular when serving as classifying modifiers) have been the subject of detailed investigations in many languages, including Russian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch and German, but they are not mentioned in Danish reference grammars. The main goal of this article is to…[Read more]

]]> 0 7693d5a691e1be0bb899f7f6dcd74771 James McElvenny deposited Rezension: Sebastian Fink, Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer, und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621444/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:26:00 -0400 Rezension

]]> 0 2417a0dd9465f872a2143492b3b75a93 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Democracy and the Vernacular Imagination in Vico’s Plebian Philology in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620775/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:26:00 -0400 This essay examines Giambattista Vico’s philology as a contribution to democratic legitimacy. I outline three steps in Vico’s account of the historical and political development of philological knowledge: first, his merger of philosophy and philology, and the effects of that merger on the relative claims of reason and authority; second, his use…[Read more]

]]> 0 86b1a4e08e71c15e6598c62c8cb5b221 Pavel Iosad deposited Phonology in the Soviet Union in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615220/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:48:15 -0400 (Revised version) Submitted to B. Elan Dresher and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), The Oxford History of Phonology

]]> 0 c48151637f657b7c95b66fbed1e966e2 James McElvenny deposited Georg von der Gabelentz in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609374/ Tue, 29 May 2018 04:13:56 -0400 The German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) occupies an interesting place at the intersection of several streams of linguistic scholarship at the end of the nineteenth century. As Professor of East-Asian languages at the University of Leipzig from 1878 to 1889 and then Professor for Sinology and General L…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a84b3b5b394a9e584ba191b97e8105c James McElvenny deposited August Schleicher and Materialism in 19th-Century Linguistics in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607164/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:12:32 -0400 Towards the end of his career, August Schleicher (1821–1868), the great consolidator of Indo-European historical-comparative linguistics in the mid-19th century, famously drew explicit parallels between linguistics and the new evolutionary theory of Darwinism. Based on this, it has become customary in linguistic historiography to refer to S…[Read more]

]]> 0 0243bb2568d345e7d8e523f3482a6665 Matthew Scarborough deposited Thematic Bibliography of Ancient Greek Dialectology (Preliminary Version) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605276/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:12:27 -0400 Document contains a preliminary partially annotated bibliography of key works on Ancient Greek dialectology, originally compiled in 2015.

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