Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2022.2098684
J. Cottier
{"title":"A History of the study of the indigenous languages of North America","authors":"J. Cottier","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2022.2098684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2022.2098684","url":null,"abstract":"References Bühler, Karl. [1934]1999. Sprachtheorie. Die Darstellungsfunktion der Sprache, 3. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius. Burch, Robert. 1992. “Valental Aspects of Peircean Algebraic Logic.” Computers & Mathematics with Applications 23 (6–9): 665–77. doi:10.1016/0898-1221(92)90128-5. Covington, Michael A. 1986. “Grammatical Theory in the Middle Ages”. In Studies in the History of Western Linguistics in Honour of R. H. Robins, edited by Theodora Bynon & F. R. Palmer, 23–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Orešnk, Janez. 1994. “A la mémoire de Lucien Tesnière, linguiste européen”. In Mélanges Lucien Tesnière, edited by Bojan Čop, Janez Orešnk, Mitja Skubic & Pavao Tekavčić, 7–8. Ljubljanja: La faculté des lettres de l’Université de Ljubljanja. Owens, Jonathan. 1988. The Foundations of Grammar: An Introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Percival, W. Keith. 1990. “Reflections on the History of Dependency Notions in Linguistics.” Historiographia Linguistica 17 (1–2): 29–47. doi:10.1075/hl.17.1-2.05per. Tesnière, Lucien. 1959. Éléments de Syntaxe Structurale. Paris: Klincksieck. Tesnière, Lucien. 2015. Elements of Structural Syntax, translated by Timothy Osborne & Sylvain Kahane. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Yngve, Victor. 1996. From Grammar to Science: New Foundations for General Linguistics. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"66 1","pages":"85 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44090114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-07-21DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2022.2088002
Raúl Aranovich, Alan Wong
{"title":"Saussure’s Cours and the Monosyllabic Myth: the perception of Chinese in early linguistic theory","authors":"Raúl Aranovich, Alan Wong","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2022.2088002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2022.2088002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ferdinand de Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale reproduced a misconception of Chinese as a monosyllabic language without complex words. In this paper, we investigate the sources of this misconception in Western thought. We also show that the misconception about Chinese was already known to be inaccurate in Saussure’s time, and that he had many missed opportunities to find out. While Saussure reproduced the empirical errors of Comparatists and Neogrammarians with respect to Chinese, he moved away from the cultural prejudices and attitudes that were behind their claims. This turn, we argue, illustrates an important aspect of the Saussurean scientific revolution, which was fuelled more by fundamental conceptual changes than by empirical discoveries.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"66 1","pages":"59 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42317969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-05-26DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2022.2050983
V. Krivoshchekova
{"title":"Early Irish grammarians and the study of speech sound","authors":"V. Krivoshchekova","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2022.2050983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2022.2050983","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Irish grammatical tradition, with its thoroughly bilingual mindset, was one of the most prolific in early medieval Europe. Bringing together vernacular and Hiberno-Latin texts from ca. 700–900, this article explores Irish grammarians’ approaches to the linguistic study of sound on various levels, from single phonemes to complete phonological units. It is argued that the combination of corporeal and incorporeal views of speech sound displayed in the sources resulted from the symbiosis of Stoic and Aristotelian philosophy of language. The innovative and transformative character of Irish grammarians’ work is explored through an analysis of vernacular terminology for phonetics and phonology. Abbreviations: eDIL: The Electronic Dictionary of Irish Language; GL: Grammatici Latini; LSJ: Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon; PL: Patrologia Latina.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"66 1","pages":"1 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42671899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2022.2055960
Bernhard Bauer, V. Krivoshchekova
{"title":"Definitions, dialectic and Irish grammatical theory in Carolingian glosses on Priscian: a case study using a close and distant reading approach","authors":"Bernhard Bauer, V. Krivoshchekova","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2022.2055960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2022.2055960","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the links between a group of early medieval (ninth century) glossed copies of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae, including manuscripts from the Irish tradition as well as Carolingian manuscripts without overt Insular connections. The corpus comprises glosses on the chapter De uoce from eight manuscripts. Both Latin and Old Irish glosses are considered. The data is explored with a multi-disciplinary approach combining methodologies of network analysis, philology and intellectual history. At first, network analysis helps to establish overarching connections between the manuscripts based on their shared parallel glosses. These results are corroborated by a case-study of a pair of glosses which occurs across a number of manuscripts and whose origin can be traced back to Hiberno-Latin grammatical commentaries of the eighth and ninth centuries. Abbreviations: Ambros.: Ars Ambrosiana; Bern.: Ars Bernensis; Clem.: Clemens Scottus, Ars grammatica; DO: Donatus Ortigraphus, Ars grammatica; GL: Grammatici Latini; Laur.: Ars Laureshamensis; Mur.: Murethach, In Donati artem maiorem; Sed.: Sedulius Scottus, In Donati artem maiorem.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"65 1","pages":"85 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47070519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2022.2058342
Mariarosaria Gianninoto
{"title":"A Chinese textbook of Manchu and its Western translations","authors":"Mariarosaria Gianninoto","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2022.2058342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2022.2058342","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An Introduction to Manchu (Qīngwén qǐméng 清文啟蒙, 1730) is one of late imperial China’s most important Manchu-Chinese bilingual primers. Its third chapter, entitled ‘The Manchu Empty Words and Grammatical Particles’, is devoted to grammatical description and uses Chinese linguistic categories and terminology to describe Manchu morphology. An Introduction to Manchu was used as a teaching tool for European learners of Chinese and Manchu. Both Wylie and Hoffman adopted a contrastive approach for their English and Italian translations of ‘The Manchu Empty Words and Grammatical Particles’, in which they added references to Western linguistic categories and comparisons with European languages (Latin, Greek, French, English, Italian). The result was a merging of linguistic paradigms and terminologies. After briefly introducing this bilingual primer, the present paper focuses on the Western translations and presentations of its third chapter. The adaptation of Western and Chinese linguistic categories and terminologies to the description of Manchu is an interesting case of the hybridisation of descriptive categories and the circulation of linguistic knowledge.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"65 1","pages":"134 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60449403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2022.2026701
P. Russell
{"title":"The medieval life of language: grammar and pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe","authors":"P. Russell","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2022.2026701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2022.2026701","url":null,"abstract":"The episode in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale when Alisoun permits Absolon to kiss some private part of her anatomy through the privy window is well known. His exclamation, ‘Fy! Allas!’ and her response ‘Tee-hee’ before slamming the window shut forms the subject of one of the central chapters of this volume on the pragmatics of medieval language and literature. It explores the history of medieval pragmatic theory and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses through a series of fascinating inter-related case-studies within a broadly Bakhtinian framework, engaging with cultural discourse analysis and conversational theory.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"65 1","pages":"148 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41679792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2021.2022324
R. Phillipson
{"title":"Explaining the foundations of global English. A review article on Global English and political economy, by John O’Regan (Routledge 2021)","authors":"R. Phillipson","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2021.2022324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2021.2022324","url":null,"abstract":"This is a complex, well-written book. The opening chapter is on political economy, followed by four chapters on the way capitalism has functioned in successive historical periods. In each of these John O’Regan (JOR) notes how English progressively became the supreme language of global power through exploring the dovetailing of political economy and language policy. The narrative integrates evidence from all continents of the synergies between corporate and government initiatives that consolidated the Anglo-American prestige variant of what JOR terms capital-centric English. In the first part of this review article I will present the principal ideas of each chapter, following which I suggest additional dimensions of how the globalisation of English was undertaken.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"65 1","pages":"150 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43604826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2021.2011563
Marten van der Meulen, G. Rutten
{"title":"Prescriptivism on its own terms. Perceptions and realities of usage in Siegenbeek’s Lijst (1847)","authors":"Marten van der Meulen, G. Rutten","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2021.2011563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2021.2011563","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1847, one of the first professors of Dutch, Matthijs Siegenbeek (1774–1854), published a purist word list entitled Lijst van woorden en uitdrukkingen met het Nederlandsch taaleigen strijdende, ‘List of words and expressions at odds with the nature of Dutch’. In this pamphlet, he condemned a variety of loanwords and loan translations. Siegenbeek refers regularly to the usage of disapproved variants, employing a variety of quantifiers and sociolinguistic references. How well such statements reflect the linguistic reality, however, is a contentious issue in studies of prescriptivism. In this paper, we study Siegenbeek’s pronouncements about usage against the backdrop of Curzan’s concept of restorative prescriptivism. By studying the use of different types of quantifiers, and matching these to a text collection of historical fiction from the time, we show that Siegenbeek’s statements about usage miss the mark for most specific variables. However, when we look at the average usage frequency, we see that as frequency terms increase in strength, so do the number of condemned variants, both for relative frequency and absolute frequency. Based on these results, we argue for a re-evaluation of the relationship between prescriptivism and usage, and a reappreciation of prescriptivists’ frequency judgements.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"65 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45214918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-16DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2021.1974719
J. Subbiondo
{"title":"‘A philosopher’s grammar’: Henry Sweet’s ‘general’, ‘universal’, and ‘philosophical grammar’","authors":"J. Subbiondo","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2021.1974719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2021.1974719","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Henry Sweet (1845–1912) defined a philosophical grammar (which he referred to as philosophical, general and universal grammar) as a grammar ‘not concerned with the details of one special language or family of languages, but with the general principles that underlie the grammatical phenomena of all languages’ (1892: 3). His philosophical grammar, compared to the comparative philological grammars that dominated the nineteenth century, was not only far more expansive and inclusive, but it also reflected Sweet’s unique integration of practical and theoretical grammars. This paper focuses on Sweet’s philosophical grammar from its introduction in ‘Words, Logic, and Grammar’ (1876) to its role in A New English Grammar (1892) and The History of Language (1900a).","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"65 1","pages":"24 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44757562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language & HistoryPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2021.1996086
María José Corvo Sánchez
{"title":"Grammar–translation method? Why a history of the methods?Considerations from a Spanish perspective","authors":"María José Corvo Sánchez","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2021.1996086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2021.1996086","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article seeks to draw attention to the particular situation regarding knowledge of the Grammar–Translation Method (GTM), or lack thereof, which still dominates a great part of the teaching and research scenes. Considering mainly what has been published in Spanish, it provides answers to the questions outlined in its title. To that end, it briefly addresses some aspects covered by research on the GTM which show how imprecise knowledge of this method can be. It focuses then on the teaching scene in Spain regarding the GTM in the context of a history of the methods. Its aim is to refute the belief presented in many academic forums by those who still assume that the History of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning begins with the GTM and summarise it as a history of the methods used to teach mainly grammatical contents.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"64 1","pages":"204 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46342416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}