Els Elffers University of Amsterdam 1. Introduction In most Western European grammars, sentences such as Hurrah!, How very curious!, or Vienna is so dull! are categorized as exclamatory sentences or exclamatives. Next to declaratives, interrogatives and imperatives, exclamatives are usually…
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Exclamatives: a grammatical category?
Tagged with: Den Hertog, exclamatives, Gabelentz, Géza Révész, Georg von der Gabelentz, Hermann Paul, Révész
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Uncategorized
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Uncategorized
Dr José Rizal and the making of a modern linguistic Messiah
Piers Kelly Australian National University Describing the preeminent Filipino national hero Dr. Jose Rizal as a linguist is a little like referring to Thomas Jefferson as a horticulturalist. The statement may be true, but the many other talents that Rizal…
Tagged with: Dr José Rizal, orthography, Philippines, Spanish, Tagalog
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Philippines, Phonology
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Philippines, Phonology
La historiografĂa mexicana en el contexto de los estudios lingĂŒĂsticos actuales
Ana Balderas GarcĂa Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico El quehacer lingĂŒĂstico en MĂ©xico se remonta al encuentro entre culturas que se dio en el siglo XVI. La imperiosa necesidad de convertir a los nativos al cristianismo, llevando el desconocimiento de…
Tagged with: American languages, field linguistics, HistoriografĂa, history of field linguistics, Mexico
Posted in 20th century, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Posted in 20th century, Article, Field linguistics, History, Linguistics
Empirical methods in language construction
BaĆak Aray UniversitĂ© Paris I â PanthĂ©on-Sorbonne, EXeCO (PHICO) Efforts to establish an international auxiliary language (IAL) have a long history. Projects to overcome ethnic languages flourished in the 17th century Britain. Creators of these âphilosophical languagesâ (Descartes, Dalgarno, Wilkins,…
Language and smell: traces of synesthesia in premodern learning
Raf Van Rooy PhD fellow of the Research Foundation â Flanders (FWO) University of Leuven It is well known that, in present-day English, the verb âsmellâ can obtain a negative connotation when used intransitively; the adjective derived from it, âsmellyâ,…
Tagged with: Latin, premodern, semantics, smell, synesthaesia, synesthesia
Posted in Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
Posted in Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
New dating of the Iloko manuscript lexicography
Rebeca FernĂĄndez RodrĂguez Centro de Estudos em Letras (CEL) Universidade de TrĂĄs-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) Missionary lexicography in the Philippines is extensive and exhaustive. Dozens of grammars and vocabularies have been written since the Spanish arrival in the Philippines…
Tagged with: Ilocano, lexicography, Philippine
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, Article, Europe, Field linguistics, Lexicography, Linguistics, Philippines
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, Article, Europe, Field linguistics, Lexicography, Linguistics, Philippines
Bloomfield : Du mentalisme au behaviorisme
Jean-Michel Fortis Laboratoire dâhistoire des thĂ©ories linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris-Diderot On peut sâinterroger sur lâĂ©volution qui voit Bloomfield passer de la psychologie Ă dominante wundtienne, qui imprĂšgne son Introduction de 1914, au behaviorisme, et dâune linguistique âmentalisteâ Ă une linguistique psycho-abstinente…
Tagged with: behaviourism, history of structuralism, Leonard Bloomfield, linguistics, mentalism, psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
El Sermonario de fray Bernardino de SahagĂșn y los fondos en lenguas indĂgenas de la Biblioteca Nacional de MĂ©xico
Pilar MĂĄynez Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico Sobre el repositorio que resguarda la versiĂłn tardĂa del Sermonario de los Sanctos del año en lengua mexicana La Biblioteca Nacional de MĂ©xico fue oficialmente inaugurada el 2 de abril de 1884 en…
Tagged with: 15th-century, history, Mexico, NĂĄhuatl, Spain
Posted in 15th century, 16th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Posted in 15th century, 16th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Toponymy and ecolinguistics
Joshua Nash University of Adelaide Ecolinguistics can be divided into two strands. The first deals with environmental discourse analysis, often termed eco-critical discourse analysis, critical ecolinguistics, or the language of ecology and environmentalism, while the second, language ecology, which deals…
Teaching language to a boy born deaf in the seventeenth century: the Holder-Wallis debate
Jaap Maat University of Amsterdam 1. The Popham notebook In the summer of 2008, a leather-bound booklet attracted the attention of a member of staff of Warner Leisure Hotels in Littlecote House, near Hungerford, Wiltshire, UK. It looked old, and…
Tagged with: 17th century, Alexander Popham, deaf education, Holder, Wallis
Posted in 17th century, Article, Europe, History
Posted in 17th century, Article, Europe, History
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 