Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Marcin Kilarski
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] 2023. x, 251 pp.
Marcin Kilarski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marcin Kilarski plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America
Marcin Kilarski
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 129] 2021. xiv, 443 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics | Languages of North America
Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present
Marcin Kilarski
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 121] 2013. xiv, 405 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax
Articles
2023 Chapter 1. Introduction Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives, Allassonnière-Tang, Marc and Marcin Kilarski (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2022 The Place of Jakób Handel (1888–c.1942) in the History of Language Study in Poland Historiographia Linguistica 49:1, pp. 71–101 | Article
In this paper we examine the life and work of Jakób Handel (1888–c.1942), an underappreciated Polish-Jewish scholar whose interests ranged from comparative-historical linguistics and the history of linguistics to classical history and Jewish studies. Apart from printed publications, his… read more
2021 Erminnie A. Smith (1836–1886): A portrait of a linguist Historiographia Linguistica 48:2/3, pp. 228–263 | Article
In this paper I discuss the varied contributions of Erminnie Adele Smith (1836–1886), a linguist, ethnologist, and geologist, who has a significant but underestimated place in the history of the study of North American languages. Among others, Smith was among the first scholars to collaborate… read more
2016 Gender Asymmetries in Iroquoian Languages and their Cultural Correlates Historiographia Linguistica 43:3, pp. 363–391 | Article
This article examines the approaches to grammatical gender in Northern Iroquoian languages, ranging from the earliest references made by French missionaries in the 1630s to contemporary studies. The author focuses on two motifs in descriptions of Iroquoian gender: the supposedly ‘primitive’… read more
2014 The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 41:1, pp. 33–78 | Article
This article examines the approaches to classifiers within the Western tradition, ranging from the earliest accounts of the languages of Mesoamerica and East Asia from the 16th-17th centuries to ongoing discussions regarding their semantic motivation and functionality. I show that in spite of the… read more
2012 On extremes in linguistic complexity: Phonetic accounts of Iroquoian, Polynesian and Khoesan Historiographia Linguistica 39:2/3, pp. 279–303 | Article
This article examines common motifs in the accounts of the sound systems of Iroquoian, Polynesian and Khoesan languages as the most well-known cases of extremes in phonetic complexity. On the basis of examples from European and American scholarship between the 17th and early 20th century, we… read more
2010 On “Eskimo Words for Snow”: The life cycle of a linguistic misconception Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 341–377 | Article
This article examines the complex interdependence of linguistics and the discourses of social sciences and philosophy based on the example of the Eskimo words for snow. In particular, we trace the life cycle of the example through three phases: (1) the origin of the misconception in the studies… read more
2009 Cherokee Classificatory Verbs: Their place in the study of American Indian languages Historiographia Linguistica 36:1, pp. 39–73 | Article
This article examines the role played by the Cherokee verbs for ‘wash’, first cited in 1820 by John Pickering (1777–1848), in studies which postulated lexical redundancy and the lack of generic terms in ‘primitive’ languages. Like the more well-known “Eskimo words for ‘snow’”, the Cherokee verbs… read more
2007 On grammatical gender as an arbitrary and redundant category History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 24–36 | Article
In this paper I give an overview of tendencies in the research on grammatical gender within the Western linguistic tradition. More specifically, I focus on the recurring claims concerning the supposed semantic arbitrariness, and formal and non-functional character of this category. Representative… read more
2007 Algonquian and Indo-European gender in a Historiographic Perspective Historiographia Linguistica 34:2/3, pp. 333–349 | Article
This article examines shared motifs in the history of the study of grammatical gender in North American Indian and Indo-European languages. Specifically, I investigate the degree of semantic and cultural motivation attributed to gender in Algonquian languages, and present analogies with accounts… read more