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Bas Aarts - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • conceptions of categorization in the History of Linguistics
    Language Sciences, 2006
    Co-Authors: Bas Aarts
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    Abstract This historiographical article maps out the way the concept of categorization has been treated in the History of Linguistics. It complements an earlier paper [Aarts, B., 2004. Conceptions of gradience in the History of Linguistics. Language Sciences 26, 343–389] on gradience in Linguistics.

  • conceptions of gradience in the History of Linguistics
    Language Sciences, 2004
    Co-Authors: Bas Aarts
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    Abstract This paper traces the History of the notion of gradience in language studies. Gradience is a cover term to designate a spectrum of continuous phenomena in language, from categories at the level of grammar to sounds at the level of phonetics. The focus here is on grammatical gradience. After discussing a number of philosophical ideas which form the backdrop to gradience the paper proceeds to outline a History of ideas on grammatical fuzziness. It concludes by proposing a compromise between the generally opposed ideas on categorization put forward in formal Linguistics, and those adopted in cognitive and functional Linguistics. This is achieved by applying morphosyntactic tests to linguistic formatives that display syntactic behaviour which is associated with more than one category, so as to establish whether the item in question belongs to one class or another. The morphosyntactic similarity of a category to another category in a particular syntactic configuration is then modelled by appealing to the notion of `convergence'.

Helena Sanson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • women in the History of Linguistics
    2020
    Co-Authors: Wendy Ayresbennett, Helena Sanson
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    Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Helena Sanson: Women in the History of Linguistics: Distant and neglected voices 1: Anneli Luhtala: Visible and invisible women in ancient linguistic culture 2: Helena Sanson: Women and language codification in Italy: Marginalized voices, forgotten contributions 3: Wendy Ayres-Bennett: Women as authors, audience, and authorities in the French tradition 4: Maria Luisa Calero Vaquera: The contribution of women to the Spanish linguistic tradition: Four centuries of surviving words 5: Sonia Coelho, Susana Fontes, and Rolf Kemmler: The female contribution to language studies in Portugal 6: Sylvie Archaimbault: Women and the elaboration of a Russian language norm 7: Nicola McLelland: Women in the History of German language studies: 'That subtle influence for which women are best suited'? 8: Marijke van der Wal and Jan Noordegraaf: The extraordinary and changing role of women in Dutch language History 9: Tove Bull, Toril Swan, and Carol Henriksen: Obstacles and opportunities for women linguists in Scandinavia 10: Carol Percy: British women's roles in the standardization and study of English 11: Bernhard Maier: The female quest for the Celtic tongues of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales 12: Margaret Thomas: Early American women's participation in language scholarship 13: Raina Heaton, Eve Okura Koller, and Lyle Campbell: Women's contributions to early American Indian Linguistics 14: Jane Simpson: Language studies by women in Australia: 'A well-stored sewing basket' 15: Momoko Nakamura: The History of the regulation and exploitation of women's speech and writing in Japan 16: Mariarosaria Gianninoto: Women and language in Imperial China: 'Womenly words' 17: Laurie L. Patton: Women and language in the Early Indian Tradition 18: Fatima Sadiqi: Women and the codification and stabilization of the Arabic language 19: Helma Pasch: European women and the description and teaching of African languages

E F K Koerner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • toward a History of american Linguistics
    2002
    Co-Authors: E F K Koerner
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    Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the History of American Linguistics and also addresses contemporary debates and issues within Linguistics.Topics covered include: * The sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis' * Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique generale * The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography * The Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics *William Labov and the Origins of SocioLinguistics in America.Toward a History of American Linguistics will be invaluable reading for academics and advanced students within the fields of Linguistics and the History of Linguistics.

  • essays in the History of Linguistics
    2002
    Co-Authors: E F K Koerner
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    The present volume follows the author's tradition of bringing together at certain intervals selections of articles which more often than not had previously been published in not easily accessible places, or which had not been published before. These papers do not typically represent mere reprints but in most instances thoroughly revised versions.This volume contains twelve articles organized under three headings, "Programmatic Papers in the History of Linguistics", "Studies in Linguistic Historiography", and "Sketches historiographical and (auto)biographical", plus as an appendix a complete list of Zellig Harris' writings as an illustration of Koerner's penchant for and belief in the importance of good bibliographies as a basis for historical research. While the first two sections, which take up the bulk of the volume, either show the author as an historian engage or demonstrate his work as a historiographer of 19th and 20th century Linguistics, the third section is much shorter and less heavy going. Indexes of Biographical Names and of Subjects, Terms & Languages round out the volume, which also contains a number of portraits of linguists and other illustrations.

  • towards a History of Linguistics in poland from the early beginnings to the end of the twentieth century
    Slavic and East European Journal, 2001
    Co-Authors: E F K Koerner, Aleksander Szwedek
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    1. Foreword & Acknowledgements 2. Editors' Introduction 3. Part I: Polish Linguistics: Origins and Trends 4. Chapter 1 General Linguistics in the History of the Languages Sciences in Poland: Late 1860s - late 1960s (by Wasik, Zdzislaw) 5. Chapter 2 Origins and Developments of Applied Linguistics in Poland (by Grucza, Franciszek) 6. Chapter 3 Lexicography in Poland: From the early beginnings to the present (by Piotrowski, Tadeusz) 7. Chapter 4 Dialectology in Poland, 1873-1997 (by Gogolewski, Stanislaw) 8. Chapter 5 Onomastics in Poland: From 19th-century beginnings to the present (by Gala, Slawomir) 9. Part II: Portraits of Major Polish Linguists 10. Chapter 6 Jan Baudouin de Courtenay's Contribution to General Linguistics (by Adamska-Salaciak, Arleta) 11. Chapter 7 Mikolaj Kruszewksi and 20th-Century Linguistics (by Berezin, Fedor Mixajlovic) 12. Chapter 8 Mikolaj Rudnicki's General Linguistic Conceptions (by Banczerowski, Jerzy) 13. Chapter 9 Jerzy Kurylowicz as Indo-Europeanist and Theorist of Languages (by Smoczynski, Wojciech) 14. Chapter 10 Aspects of Ludwik Zabrocki's Linguistic World (by Banczerowski, Jerzy) 15. Polish Summaries (Streszczenia polskie) 16. Index of Authors 17. Index of Subjects

  • the History of Linguistics in the low countries
    1992
    Co-Authors: J Noordegraaf, Kees Versteegh, E F K Koerner
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    1. The Historiography of Dutch Linguistics: A Diachronic Introduction (by Schultink, H.) 2. Uber die Verbreitung Lexikographischer Werke in den Niederlanden und Ihre Wechselseitige Beziehungen mit dem Ausland bis zum Jahre l600 (by Claes, Frans M.W.) 3. Dutch philology in the 16th and 17th Century (by Dibbets, Geert R.W.) 4. Dutch Language Study and the Trivium: Motives and Elaborations (by Klifman, Harm) 5. Petrus Montanus as a Phonetician and a Theoretician (by Hulsker, Jos L.M.) 6. Gerardus Joannes Vossius (1577-1649) and the Study of Latin Grammar (by Rademaker, Cor S.M.) 7. Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship: A Survey of 17th-Century Achievements (by Salmon, Vivian) 8. Spinoza and the Grammarians of the Bible (by Klijnsmit, Anthony J.) 9. Lambert ten Kate and the Origin of 19th-century Historical Linguistics (by Jongeneelen, Gerrit H.) 10. 19th-Century Linguistics: The Dutch Development and the German Theme (by Driel, Lodewijk van) 11. Tenses in 19th-century Dutch Sentence Grammar (by Le Loux-Schuringa, J.A.) 12. Hoogvliet versus van Ginneken: Dutch Linguistics around the Turn of the Century (by Noordegraaf, Jan) 13. The Syntax of Two Dutch Structuralists in Its Historical Context (by Kaldewaij, Jelle) 14. Dutch Dialectology: The National and the International Perspective (by Hagen, Anton M.) 15. The History of the Teaching of Foreign Languages in the Low Countries (by Els, Theo van) 16. Illustrations 17. Index Nominum 18. Index Rerum

Christopher Hutton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Linguistics and the third reich mother tongue fascism race and the science of language
    Language, 2000
    Co-Authors: Christopher Hutton
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    In this ground-breaking work, Christopher Hutton demonstrates that an important component of European fascist thought was derived from Linguistics, not least the notion of an Aryan people with an original language and homeland. In Nazi Germany, linguistic fascism took the form of a cult of the mother-tongue, expressed in a horror of linguistic assimilation and a xenophobic assertion of German language rights. Jews were considered to lack a healthy relationship to the German language and therefore to threaten the bond between the Germans and their language. Linguistics and the Third Reich presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyzes the work of selected linguists, including Jost Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi Linguistics within the policies of Hitlers state and within the History of modern Linguistics. Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished and published sources, he attacks long-standing myths about the role of Linguistics within the Nazi state and about the relationship of Linguistics to race theory. This is the first single-volume guide to the Linguistics of the Third Reich and fills a large gap in the literatur on National Socialist ideology. Huttons research makes a remarkable contribution to the understanding of links between Linguistics and the development of European racial theory and to the field of the History of Linguistics.

Theodora Bynon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • approaches to language typology
    Language, 1997
    Co-Authors: Masayoshi Shibatani, Theodora Bynon
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    What do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? Language typology, which has developed in response to these fundamental questions, is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of possible human language and of capturing constraints on cross-linguistic variation. Language typology is a major concern of all contemporary schools of Linguistics, yet a coherent image of the field is difficult to form because of the diversity of theoretical orientations and practical methodologies. This text brings together for the first time original contributions from major schools of typological research, from the Prague School of the Generative Grammar tradition. Leading scholars offer first hand accounts of the theoretical foundations and substantive findings of their particulr school of thought, clarifying basic assumptions which are often not explicitly stated in the literature. The book as a whole provides a survey of the place of individual typology in an international context. It gives an overview of both the underlying unity of, and the differences in, the methods employed in the field. This work should be of interest to theoretical linguists of all persuasions who are interested in typology; historical linguists; students of the History of Linguistics.