Mark E. Amsler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark E. Amsler plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0302-5160 | E-ISSN 1569-9781
Titles
Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600
Edited by Anneli Luhtala and Mark E. Amsler
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 44:2/3 (2017) vi, 270 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics
Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Mark E. Amsler
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 44] 1989. xi, 280 pp.
Subjects Classical linguistics | Classical philosophy | History of linguistics | Medieval linguistics | Medieval philosophy | Philosophy
2019 Making a genealogy of “American linguistics” with John Eliot’s Indian Grammar Begun (1666) Historiographia Linguistica 46:3, pp. 33–56 | Article
In the history of linguistics John Pickering (1777–1846) and Stephen Du Ponceau’s (1760–1844) decision to reedit and republish John Eliot’s (ca. 1604–1690) The Indian Grammar Begun is an important but underrecognized event. Eliot’s grammar was first published in 1666, but by the early 1800s had… read more
2013 Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics By Margaret Thomas Historiographia Linguistica 40:1/2, pp. 294–297 | Review
2010 Premodern Letters and Textual Consciousness: From the Pre-Socratics to the First Grammatical Treatise Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 279–319 | Article
Modern linguistics textbooks devote little, if any, space to writing systems. Shifting our attention from naming precursors or proto-theories to reading earlier language study and linguistics as theorizing and description, the present paper explores ancient and early medieval concepts of the… read more
1993 History of linguistics: ‘Standard Latin’, and Pedagogy Historiographia Linguistica 20:1, pp. 49–66 | Article
Recent work in the history of early medieval linguistics has challenged a number of assumptions about the representation of Latin and language usage during the period. Given the way Latin is often positioned as a standard for literacy and schooling, these revisions of early medieval linguistics… read more
1993 History of Linguistics,: ‘standard Latin’, and pedagogy History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages, Law, Vivien A. (ed.), pp. 49–66 | Article
1990 Commentary and Metalanguage in Early Medieval Latin Grammar History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 175–188 | Chapter