Douglas A. Kibbee

List of John Benjamins publications for which Douglas A. Kibbee plays a role.

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The first article of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “all men are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. It prohibits discrimination based on language, among other criteria, and defines a number of areas in which rights are guaranteed, including legal… read more
Kibbee, Douglas A. 2008 9. Forensic linguistics and FrenchStudies in French Applied Linguistics, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 295–316 | Article
Nous examinons rapidement les cinq domaines de recherche en linguistique forensique, avant de nous consacrer à l’étude de la notion du désavantage linguistique dans l’histoire de la France. L’importance du désavantage linguistique n’est devenue primordiale qu’après des réformes dans la procédure… read more
Kibbee, Douglas A. 1992 The first French Grammar in English? Ms Walter Rye 38Historiographia Linguistica 19:2/3, pp. 415–418 | Miscellaneous
Kibbee, Douglas A. 1990 Language Variation and Linguistic Description in 16th-Century FranceNorth American Contributions to the History of Linguistics, Dinneen, S.J., Francis P. and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 49–66 | Article
The first French grammarians to consider the French language condemned variation – historical variation, geographical variation, and sociolinguistic variation. For the French language to be first among vernacular languages, it had to have fixity, to be governed by absolute rules. How can one… read more
Kibbee, Douglas A. 1986 The Humanist Period in Renaissance Bilingual LexicographyThe History of Lexicography, Hartmann, R.R.K. (ed.), pp. 137–146 | Article
John Palsgrave, an Englishman, wrote the first detailed grammar of the French language, Lesclaircissement de la langue francoyse (1530). This work is remarkable not only for its length but also for its quality. Palsgrave wrote a pedagogical text for his English readers, using a system which leads… read more