Language and Society in Early Modern England: Selected essays 1982–1994
Vivian Salmon
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 77] 1996. viii, 276 pp.
Vivian Salmon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vivian Salmon plays a role.
Titles
Subjects History of linguistics
The Study of Language in 17th-Century England: Second Edition
Vivian Salmon
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 17] 1988. x, 218 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics
A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 35] 1987. xx, 523 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics
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2003. Some notes on the life and work of John Minsheu (1560–1627). Historiographia Linguistica 30:3, pp. 259–272
John Minsheu (1560–1627) has long been known to historians of lexicography as the author of an impressive comparative and etymological dictionary, Ductor in Linguas (1617). Less well known is his grammar of Spanish (1599), which is unusual for its time in displaying interest in socio-linguistic… read more | Article
1992. 'Philosophical' Grammar in Wilkins' Essay. John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics, Subbiondo, Joseph L. (ed.), pp. 207 ff.
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1992. John Wilkins' Essay (1668): Critics and continuators. John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics, Subbiondo, Joseph L. (ed.), pp. 349 ff.
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1992. Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) and the English origins of Algonkian linguistics. Historiographia Linguistica 19:1, pp. 25–56
Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) was an outstanding mathematician and astronomer whose scientific writings – had they not been allowed to remain in manuscript – would long ago have earned for him an international esteem comparable with that of Galileo and Kepler. Only in recent decades has his status… read more | Article
1992. Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship: A Survey of 17th-Century Achievements. The History of Linguistics in the Low Countries, Noordegraaf, Jan, Kees Versteegh and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 129 ff.
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1988. Anglo-Dutch linguistic scholarship: A survey of seventeenth-century achievements. Historiographia Linguistica 15:1/2, pp. 129–153
Although political, social and cultural relationships between 17th-century England and the Netherlands have inspired several books and articles, no general account has yet been produced of the linguistic achievements, academic and applied, which resulted to a large extent from the common personal… read more | Article
1987. Sentence Structures in Colloquial Shakespearian English. A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, Salmon, Vivian and Edwina Burness, pp. 265 ff.
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1987. Some Functions of Shakespearian Word-Formation. A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, Salmon, Vivian and Edwina Burness, pp. 193 ff.
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1987. Elizabethan Colloquial English in the Falstaff Plays. A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, Salmon, Vivian and Edwina Burness, pp. 37 ff.
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1985. Missionary linguistics in seventeenth century Ireland and a North American Analogy. Historiographia Linguistica 12:3, pp. 321–349
Accounts of Christian missionary linguists in the 16th and 17th centuries are usually devoted to their achievements in the Americas and the Far East, and it is seldom remarked that, at the time when English Protestant missionaries were attempting to meet the challenge of unknown languages on the… read more | Article
1982. Wh- and Yes/no questions: Charles butler’s grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept. Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh, Anderson, John A.E. (ed.), pp. 401 ff.
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1980. Review of Görlach (1978): Einfuhrung ins Frühneuenglische. English World-Wide 1:1, pp. 133–134
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1975. John Brinsley: 17th-Century Pioneer in Applied Linguistics. Historiographia Linguistica 2:2, pp. 175–189
John Brinsley (1566-c.1630) seems to have been the first English scholar to publish a comprehensive language-teaching course for students of Latin. His first textbook, which appeared in 1612, was a lengthy discussion of teaching method; it was followed by a grammar, and by translations of Latin… read more | Article
1974. John Wilkins’ Essay (1668): Critics and continuators. Historiographia Linguistica 1:2, pp. 147–163
One of the major achievements of Britsh linguistic scholarship before the 19th century was John Wilkins’ (1609–72) Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668), which attempted to construct, for scientific purposes, a language in which the elements were isomorphic with the… read more | Article