On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
George J. Metcalf
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 120] 2013. viii, 181 pp.
Raf Van Rooy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Raf Van Rooy plays a role.
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Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics
Articles
2022 Contrastive grammar in the Renaissance: The subtle presence of Greek in Jean Pillot’s French grammar (1550/1561) Languages in Contrast 22:1, pp. 114–135 | Article
This paper focuses on how Jean Pillot, author of the most popular French grammar of the sixteenth century in terms of editions, took efforts to contrast his native language with Greek. His Gallicæ linguæ institutio (1550/1561), although written in Latin, contains numerous passages where Pillot… read more
2021 How Greek is the Graeco-Latin model? Some critical reflections on a key concept in missionary linguistic historiography through Alexandre de Rhodes’s early description of Vietnamese (1651) Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia, Zwartjes, Otto and Paolo De Troia (eds.), pp. 217–230 | Chapter
2020 An ablative for the Greeks? A grammar dispute in Tübingen (1585/1586) and its implications Historiographia Linguistica 47:2/3, pp. 137–168 | Article
In this article, I discuss a grammar dispute that took place between Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin and Martin Crusius in Tübingen in the winter of 1585/1586. I argue that their diverging views on the ablative case reflect a disagreement on two levels, in addition to their obvious personal rivalry:… read more
2016 The ancient Greek and Byzantine notion of dialektos: A criterial approach History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014, Assunção, Carlos, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler (eds.), pp. 55–68 | Article
By studying the different definitions from the Hellenistic era up to Byzantine times, the present paper aims at contributing to tracing the vicissitudes of the term dialektos – and the concept intertwined with it; for this aspect as yet lacks an extensive and systematic treatment. In particular, it… read more
2015 Grammatik: Wissen und Macht in der Geschichte einer sprachlichen Institution Historiographia Linguistica 42:1, pp. 195–199 | Review