“And he knew our language”: Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast
Marcus Tomalin
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 116] 2011. xi, 203 pp.
Marcus Tomalin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marcus Tomalin plays a role.
Title
Subjects History of linguistics | Languages of North America
Articles
2010 Missionary Linguistics / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography. Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Mérida, Yucatán, 14–17 March 2007. Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Ramón Arzápalo Marín and Thomas C. Smith-Stark Historiographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 238–246 | Review
2010 Migrating propositions and the evolution of Generative Grammar Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 315–336 | Article
This chapter considers the way in which linguistic theories develop (or ‘evolve’). Taking the ‘Research Program’ model of scientific theory development as a starting point, the discussion focuses on the intricate relationship between Generative Grammar and Relational Grammar during the period… read more
2008 Reassessing Nineteenth-Century Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast Historiographia Linguistica 35:1/2, pp. 83–120 | Article
This article reconsiders various aspects of missionary linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast in the late 19th century. In particular, it explores the complex relationship between Alfred Hall’s (1853–1918) A Grammar of the Kwagiutl Language (1888) and Charles Harrison’s (d.1926) Haida Grammar… read more
2006 ‘…to this rule there are many exceptions’: Robert Maunsell and the Grammar of Maori Historiographia Linguistica 33:3, pp. 303–334 | Article
This article assesses Robert Maunsell’s (1810–1894) Grammar of the New Zealand Language (1842). In particular, it is shown that, contrary to established belief, Maunsell’s Grammar was not exclusively based upon European or Hebrew grammatical models, but rather that it constituted an intriguing… read more
2004 Leonard Bloomfield: Linguistics and mathematics Historiographia Linguistica 31:1, pp. 105–136 | Article
This paper considers various aspects of Leonard Bloomfield’s (1887–1949) interest in contemporaneous mathematics. Specifically, some of the sources from which he obtained his mathematical knowledge are discussed, as are his own proposals for a linguistics-based solution to the foundations crisis… read more