Pierre Swiggers

List of John Benjamins publications for which Pierre Swiggers plays a role.

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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism

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Swiggers, Pierre, Werner Thomas and Toon Van Hal. 2021. On the ‘affinities of Oriental languages’: Wilhelm von Humboldt and his British connections. Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia, Zwartjes, Otto and Paolo De Troia (eds.), pp. 265–288
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This contribution offers an attempt at defining the genre of grammatical school papyri, on the basis of a corpus of some 65 relevant papyri, roughly ranging from the 1st to the 8th century AD. After a brief overview of the heuristic and methodological state of the art, we offer a content-based… read more | Chapter
En 1672 parut à Amsterdam, chez Abraham Wolfgang (1634–1694), une grammaire de l’italien rédigée en néerlandais. L’auteur de cette grammaire, publiée anonymement, peut être identifié comme Lodewijk Meijer (1629–1681). L’ouvrage, intitulé Italiaansche Spraakkonst, se caractérise par une organisation… read more | Article
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Swiggers, Pierre. 2017. Nicolaus Clenardus’ Institutiones grammaticae Latinae (1538): Contents and context. Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600, Luhtala, Anneli and Mark E. Amsler (eds.), pp. 430–458
In 1538 the Flemish humanist language scholar Nicolaus Clenardus (1493–1542) published a grammar of Latin in Braga (Portugal), the Institutiones grammaticae Latinae. The grammar, the fruit of his public teaching in Braga, was the third in a series of grammars written by Clenardus: while active in… read more | Article
Edward Sapir’s grammar of Takelma remains a model of linguistic description and insight into the deeper structure of a language. Together with his Takelma Texts it is our principal source of information on this extinct language, once spoken in southwestern Oregon. Sapir did his fieldwork on Takelma… read more | Article
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The academy memoir Zur Morphologie der Sprache which August Schleicher published in 1859 in the Saint-Petersburg Academy collection proposes an innovating classification, on a morphological basis, of the languages of the world. The work is based on a theory of the formal structure of the word; the… read more | Article
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The origin and development of the parts-of-speech system was the subject of retrospective accounts written by ancient Greek and Latin authors interested in this evolutionary process of grammaticography. These accounts, containing a survey of doctrines and viewpoints concerning the number and nature… read more | Article
In his review of Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (1957), R.B. Lees praised the work as a pioneering effort in constructing a truly scientific theory of language. Very soon, Chomsky’s 1957 book was regarded as inaugurating the ‘generative revolution’ in linguistics. The present study focuses on the… read more | Article
Swiggers, Pierre. 2009. David Zeisberger’s Description of Delaware Morphology (1827). Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 325–344
This article proposes an analysis of the linguistic work of the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger (1721–1808), and more particularly of his grammar of the Delaware language (= [Lenni-]Lenape), which was published in 1827 in an English translation by Peter S. Du Ponceau (1760–1844), on the basis… read more | Article
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The participle is one of the eight parts of speech in ancient Greek grammaticography. In spite of its constant inclusion in grammar manuals of the ancient Greek tradition, its status is problematic given that the participle is defined not in terms of proper and specific characteristics, but… read more | Article
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Desmet, Piet, Peter Lauwers and Pierre Swiggers. 1999. Dialectology, Philology and Linguistics in the Romance Field: Methodological Developments and Interactions. Variation in (Sub)standard language, Belemans, Rob and Reinhild Vandekerckhove (eds.), pp. 177–203
Abstract. This contribution offers a historical survey of the views adopted by Romance scholars in methodological discussions tied up with dialectological work conducted between 1875 and 1925. Following an initial phase in which dialectology was strongly linked to folklore-based work and was mainly… read more | Article
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Swiggers, Pierre and Alfons Wouters. 1999. A Round-Table Discussion. History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 3 ff.
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Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers. 1992. Avant-propos. Études offertes à Karel van den EyndeÉtudes offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive, Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers (dir.), pp. i–iii
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Swiggers, Pierre. 1991. Variation, invariance, hierarchy, and integration as grammatical parameters. New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, Waugh, Linda R. and Stephen Rudy (eds.), pp. 185–220
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Swiggers, Pierre et Karel van den Eynde. 1987. La Morphologie Du Verbe Francais. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 77/78, pp. 151–251
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Pierre Swiggers: Frege on reference in quotation. A discussion about the correct interpretation of an "enigmatic" statement made by Frege. read more | Discussion
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SAMENVATTING Westerse geschiedenissen van de taalkunde: aanvullende bibliografie Zoals aangestipt in mijn overzicht van het recente onderzoek over de geschiedenis van de taalkunde (Swiggers 1980), heeft de geschiedschrijving van de linguïstiek een zeer lange voorgeschiedenis. Een interessante ken… read more | Article
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Swiggers, Pierre. 1980. Durand on Port-Royal. Studies in Language 4:1, pp. 125–130
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