George J. Metcalf

List of John Benjamins publications for which George J. Metcalf plays a role.

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On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung

George J. Metcalf

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 120] 2013. viii, 181 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics

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Metcalf, George J. 1980 Theodor Bibliander (1504–1564) and the Languages of Japheth’s Progeny Historiographia Linguistica 7:3, pp. 323–333 | Article
Theodor Bibliander (1504–1564) was an important link in developing the concept of the language family that is now called Indo-European. ‘Lector’ for the Greek of the Septuagint at the Münsterschule in Zürich (Zwingli’s successor), Bibliander had early showed aptitude for languages and had devoted… read more