Floris Solleveld

List of John Benjamins publications for which Floris Solleveld plays a role.

Articles

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java can be seen as the first comparative grammar of non-Indo-European languages. While Humboldt’s practice of collecting and re-assembling linguistic information has been documented extensively in the Berlin Academy edition of his… read more
Julius Klaproth’s Asia Polyglotta (1823) and Adriano Balbi’s Atlas ethnographique du Globe (1826a, 1826b) were the first examples of so-called ‘language atlases’. This article investigates how these atlases presented language as an object of study, and how the study of language intersected with… read more