James McElvenny

List of John Benjamins publications for which James McElvenny plays a role.

Journal

Historiographia Linguistica (HL)

Edited by Jean-Michel Fortis and Otto Zwartjes

ISSN 0302-5160 | E-ISSN 1569-9781

Articles

McElvenny, James 2018 August Schleicher and Materialism in 19th-Century Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2, pp. 133–152 | Article

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… read more

McElvenny, James 2015 Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics: From historical antecedents to computational modeling Historiographia Linguistica 42:1, pp. 169–172 | Review

McElvenny, James 2015 The application of C.K. Ogden’s semiotics in Basic English Language Problems and Language Planning 39:2, pp. 187–204 | Article

Although a relatively minor project in terms of its impact on the broader international language movement, Basic English is interesting for the elaborate semiotic theory that underlies it. The creator of Basic English, Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957), is today remembered chiefly as co-author of The… read more