Language & HistoryPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1706132
M. Jacques
{"title":"Syllable and diphthong classification in the medieval Welsh bardic grammars","authors":"M. Jacques","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1706132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1706132","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The medieval Welsh bardic grammars, known as ‘Gramadegau’r Penceirddiaid,’ include an extensive system of classification to describe syllable and diphthong types. While much of the rest of the linguistic description in the bardic grammars is heavily Latinate, this section is apparently innovative and oriented towards the demands of bardic composition. The syllables and diphthongs section is extensively revised over the course of its transmission, and either expanded or contracted depending on the aims and purposes of its editors. This article examines the two earliest revisions, found in Peniarth MS 20 (c.1330) and Bangor MS 1 (mid-fifteenth century) as evidence of the changing function of the grammars over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A case is made for the increasing use of the grammars as practical pedagogical documents from the mid-fifteenth century.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"63 1","pages":"73 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1706132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44777426","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 : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1706130
D. Stifter
{"title":"Old Irish etymology through the ages","authors":"D. Stifter","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1706130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1706130","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The etymological study of Early Irish began in the Old Irish period (c. 700‒900 a.d.), under the influence of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, and, because of its flexible hermeneutic potential, it enjoyed great popularity in the middle and early modern periods. It is only with the rise of modern comparative linguistics, especially of Indo-European linguistics in the second half of the 19th century, that the art of Irish etymology attained scholarly rigour. Over the past 150 years, paradigm shifts in Indo-European studies (laryngeal theory, accent/ablaut classes of inflection, derivational morphology) and the development of modern technology (digitisation of texts, e.g. eDIL, ISOS) have repeatedly chang-ed the methods and the course of Irish etymological studies. The impact of some of these external factors will be illustrated with examples.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"63 1","pages":"24 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1706130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47890865","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 : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1706129
Pádraic Moran
{"title":"Comparative linguistics in seventh-century Ireland: De origine scoticae linguae","authors":"Pádraic Moran","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1706129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1706129","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT De origine scoticae linguae (DOSL, also known as ‘O’Mulconry’s Glossary’) is an etymological glossary dating from around the late-seventh or early-eighth century. It discusses the origins of about 884 Irish words, very often deriving them from Latin, Greek or Hebrew. As such it represents the earliest etymological study of any European vernacular language. Despite this, however, the text has to date been almost completely ignored for its significance in the history of linguistics. This article analyses the authors’ methods, particularly with regard to the semantic and formal components of etymologies, and argues that the text shows considerable coherence, both internally and in relation to its sources and models in the Graeco-Roman linguistic tradition. It argues that DOSL is a serious work of scholarship that represents a milestone in the historical development of comparative linguistics.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"63 1","pages":"23 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1706129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44645642","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 : 2019-08-27DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1649855
Ivan Andrijanić, Petra Matović
{"title":"Filip Vesdin and the comparison of Sanskrit with Iranian and Germanic languages","authors":"Ivan Andrijanić, Petra Matović","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1649855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1649855","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Filip Vesdin, known by his monastic name Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo (1748–1806), was a Carmelite missionary stationed from 1776 to 1789 in Southwestern India. Vesdin authored an impressive opus of 32 books and smaller treatises on Brahmanic religion and customs, oriental manuscripts and antiques collections, language comparison and missionary history. This article focuses on the field of language comparison, principally on Vesdin’s book De antiquitate et affinitate linguae Zendicae, Samscrdamicae, et Germanicae dissertatio (= Dissertation on the Antiquity and the Affinity of the Zend, Sanskrit, and Germanic Languages), published in Rome in 1798. In this rather short treatise (56 pages), the most important part consists of three word-lists where a large number of words from Avestan, Sanskrit and Germanic languages are compared in order to prove that these languages are related. The paper presents Vesdin’s three word-lists together with a description and evaluation of his views on the relationships between these languages in order to highlight his significance in the history of comparative and historical linguistics. The paper also provides new insights into the relationship of De antiquitate to Vesdin’s later proto-linguistic treatise, De Latini sermonis origine (1802). Abbreviations Av.: Avestan; Guj.: Gujaratī; IIr.: Indo-Iranian; Lat.: Latin; Malab.: Malabaricum (Vesdin’s term for Malayāḷam); Malay.: Malayāḷam; MHG: Middle High Germa; NHG: New High German; NP: New Persian; OAv.: Old Avestan; OFris.: Old Frisian; OHG: Old High German; OSax.: Old Saxon; Pahl.: Pahlavi; PG: Proto Germanic; PIE: Proto Indo-European; Skt.: Sanskrit; YAv.: Young Avestan","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"62 1","pages":"195 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1649855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47597971","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 : 2019-08-26DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1649853
S. Bayley
{"title":"Primary school modern language teaching in England 1964-2014: the legacy of the Burstall Report","authors":"S. Bayley","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1649853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1649853","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Nuffield/Schools Council Pilot Scheme of the mid-1960s to 70s was the first concerted effort to teach a modern language in the primary schools of England. The results of this experiment were published in the final Burstall Report (1974), which concluded that teaching French to eight-to-eleven year olds was not feasible given the available resources. Therefore, the Pilot Scheme was written off as a failure. This study suggests that, far from failing, the Scheme prepared the ground and planted the seeds of today’s successful primary modern language teaching (PMLT). In viewing the Scheme in retrospect through the lens of current developments, it becomes apparent that its innovations shape much of present practice. Its use of classroom teachers, principle of inclusiveness, and introduction of technology into the modern language classroom are some examples. Moreover, its identification of major obstacles to good PMLT led to the fashioning of a new ethos which harmonises it with the Progressive philosophy of primary education.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"62 1","pages":"247 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1649853","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48846070","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 : 2019-08-24DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1649856
N. Zair
{"title":"Reconstructed forms in the Roman writers on language","authors":"N. Zair","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1649856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1649856","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ancient writers on the Latin language had the concept of ‘reconstruction’ of words which existed in earlier stages of the language. In some ways this was similar to modern notions of reconstruction, in others different. In this article I show how writers subsequent to Varro continued to use concepts of relationships of sounds between older and classical Latin, and between Latin and other languages, to come up with their reconstructions. I will also show that these reconstructions could be considered to have once existed, to the extent that they could be treated as real words in lexica.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"62 1","pages":"227 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1649856","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47014399","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}
{"title":"Teaching language to a boy born deaf: the Popham notebook and associated texts","authors":"William T. Ennis","doi":"10.1353/sls.2019.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2019.0008","url":null,"abstract":"David Cram and Jaap Maat’s Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf: The Popham Notebook and Associated Texts is an incisive and thoroughly researched book on the education of Alexander Popham, born de...","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"63 1","pages":"169 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sls.2019.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48571575","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 : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1641959
Kohei Uchimaru
{"title":"Education through the study of English: Yoshisaburô Okakura as a conservative reformer","authors":"Kohei Uchimaru","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1641959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1641959","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article advances understanding of Yoshisaburô Okakura (1868–1936), the doyen of English teaching in early twentieth-century Japan, by examining his evaluations of European language teaching methods. Okakura expressed doubt towards the Natural Method and preferred the Reform Method in terms of school education. However, Okakura was more conservative than the Reform Movement theorists, as he was in favour of the use of the mother tongue and literary language as an important educational principle. His educational views were implemented in his teaching practice in the pioneering Radio English Course that he produced from 1925 onwards.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"62 1","pages":"159 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1641959","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42848147","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 : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17597536.2019.1641955
Xuanzhi Shi
{"title":"The roots of bilingual education in China: the educational practices of Fujian Naval College in the late Qing period, 1866-1911","authors":"Xuanzhi Shi","doi":"10.1080/17597536.2019.1641955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1641955","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present article seeks to fill a scholarly gap in the early history of bilingual education (Chinese and foreign languages) in China by investigating the educational practices of Fujian Naval College, the premier naval college in late imperial China (1840–1911), with a focus on the curriculum design in the college. Based on a variety of primary sources such as memorials to the throne, imperial edicts and education reports, this article informs us of a crucial but surprisingly overlooked historical episode of bilingual education in China. It also enhances our understanding of the subtle entanglements of education, culture and politics in China during the second half of the 19th century. The findings show how bilingual education emerged in China’s government colleges, and how deep-rooted Confucianism could be compatible with modern science knowledge in the bilingual curriculum. The bilingual education in Fujian Naval College achieved a dual objective of transferring modern technical expertise to China and maintaining Chinese cultural identity, which exerted a considerable impact on the promotion of multilingualism in China.","PeriodicalId":41504,"journal":{"name":"Language & History","volume":"62 1","pages":"119 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17597536.2019.1641955","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45603796","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}