Anna Pytlowany University of Amsterdam This is Part II of a series. Part I is here. At first glance, the history of Dutch East India Company (VOC) linguistics is simply a history of texts. Published or not, edited, translated, or…
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Examining material aspects of manuscripts. Part II: Bindings and provenance
Tagged with: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Dutch East India Company, history, manuscripts, material history, VOC
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Posted in 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Article, Europe, Linguistics, Netherlands
El Sermonario de fray Bernardino de SahagĂşn y los fondos en lenguas indĂgenas de la Biblioteca Nacional de MĂ©xico
Pilar Máynez 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, Náhuatl, Spain
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Posted in 15th century, 16th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics
Linguists choosing the wrong side: Jacob van Ginneken and other alleged Nazi collaborators
Toon Van Hal University of Leuven Unlike the other posts to this blog, the present post is not intended as a contribution to learning. Its sole ambition is to open a discussion on a rather sensitive topic (which is not…
Tagged with: 20th century, history, Jacob van Ginneken, linguistics, Nazi ideology
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Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics
Early writing and printing in the Philippines
Rebeca Ferndández RodrĂguez Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Printing and publishing began in the Philippines with the arrival of the Spanish in 1565. Encountering an enormous number of native languages, the Spaniards felt a pressing need to describe the…
Tagged with: 16th century, history, Philippines, printing, Spain, writing
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Posted in 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, Article, History, Philippines
Otto Jespersen and progress in international language
James McElvenny University of Sydney When it comes to expressing the ideas of our own day, the deficiencies of classical Latin appear with ruthless clarity: telephones and motor-cars and wireless have no room in Ciceronian Latin, and it will be…
Tagged with: 19th century, 20th century, aesthetics, constructed languages, Couturat, Gabelentz, grammar, history, international language, Jespersen, linguistics, Ogden, Peano, philosophy, Sapir
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Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, History, Linguistics
Greetings from the Orient: H.W. Ludolf as a central figure in 17th-cent. language study
Han Lamers (Leiden) & Toon Van Hal (Leuven) Leiden University and University of Leuven This post takes the reader to Ottoman Smyrna (Izmir in present-day Turkey) and Constantinople (now Istanbul) about 1700 A.D. Almost 250 years before, the Eastern-Roman, or…
Tagged with: 17th century, Anatolia, Germany, history, Ludolf
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Gabelentz — Grammatiker einer Sprache ohne Grammatik
Kennosuke Ezawa Ost-West-Gesellschaft fĂĽr Sprach- und Kulturforschung e. V., Berlin In der Wissenschaft gilt ein Modell von dem Gegegenstand, der erklärt werden soll, nur solange, bis es nicht mehr taugt. Bei der so genannten Chomskyschen Revolution in der Linguistik Mitte…
Tagged with: 19th century, Chinese, Gabelentz, Germany, grammar, history
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Posted in 19th century, Article, Germany, History
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 