Tore Janson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tore Janson plays a role.
Articles
1982 Sound change and perceptual compensation Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977, Maher, J. Peter, Allan R. Bomhard and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 119 ff. | Article
1979 Lucretius on the Origin of Language Historiographia Linguistica 6:2, pp. 149–157 | Article
The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99–55 B.C.) deserves a place in the history of linguistics because of his views on the origin of language. He was the first one to draw the parallel between the sounds of animals and the beginnings of human speech, and the first one to clearly envisage… read more