Michael Isermann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Isermann plays a role.
Articles
2007 Letters, sounds and things: Orthography, phonetics and metaphysics in Wilkins’s Essay (1668) Historiographia Linguistica 34:2/3, pp. 213–256 | Article
For a long time, and well beyond the publication of John Wilkins’s Essay Towards a Real Character (1668), a latent tension characterised the orthographic tradition. It was caused by two incompatible principles whose problematic relationship had never been addressed. One is the idea of the… read more
1999 Substantial vs. relational analogy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century linguistic thought History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 105–112 | Chapter
1996 John Wallis on adjectives the discovery of phrase structure in the Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653) Historiographia Linguistica 23:1/2, pp. 47–72 | Article
One of the typical features of the early grammars of European vernaculars is their sketchy treatment of syntactic phenomena. The reason for this neglect is obvious: The steady orientation of grammarians towards the traditional word-class approach virtually necessitated the persistence of the view… read more