Marcin Kilarski

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marcin Kilarski plays a role.

Titles

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.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects History of linguistics | Languages of North America
Subjects History of linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax
Kilarski, Marcin and Marc Allassonnière-Tang 2023 Chapter 1. IntroductionNominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives, Allassonnière-Tang, Marc and Marcin Kilarski (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
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
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
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
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
Kilarski, Marcin and Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk 2012 On extremes in linguistic complexity: Phonetic accounts of Iroquoian, Polynesian and KhoesanHistoriographia 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
Cichocki, Piotr and Marcin Kilarski 2010 On “Eskimo Words for Snow”: The life cycle of a linguistic misconceptionHistoriographia 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
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
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
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