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Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier : Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg, 1808). New edition
Jan 1977
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This volume presents a fac simile edition of Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Altertumskunde (Heidelberg 1808). It is preceded by an introductory article by Sebastiano Timpanaro ‘Friedrich Schlegel and the beginnings of Indo-European linguistics in Germany’.
The Lautgesetz-Controversy : A documentation (1885–86). New edition
Jan 1977
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The essays reproduced in this volume represent the major and characteristic documents in that flood of literature that was produced during the neogrammarian controversy. At that time the entire community of linguists came face to face with the most profound problems of its theory and practice; it was a true crisis of empirical interpretation. Therefore these essays are of much more than ‘mere’ historical interest: each one of them plunges directly into the central issues of the science of historical linguistics.
Curtius’ Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung (January 1885) was the initial polemic. Delbrück’s reply Die neueste Sprachforschung Betrachtungen über George Curtius’Schrift ‘Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung’ and Brugmann’s retort Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft appeared soon thereafter. Later that year appeared Schuchardt’s attack Über die Lautgesetze: Gegen die Junggrammatiker. Collitz’article Die neueste Sprachforschung und die Erklärung des indogermanischen Ablautes did not appear until 1886 followed soon by Osthoff’s reply Die neueste Sprachforschung und die Erklärung des indogermanischen Ablautes: Antwort auf die gleichnamige Schrift von Dr. Hermann Collitz. Jespersen’s criticism of the neogrammarians appeared in German translation as Zur Lautgesetzfrage in1887.
The volume provides an Introduction and Select Bibliography.
Curtius’ Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung (January 1885) was the initial polemic. Delbrück’s reply Die neueste Sprachforschung Betrachtungen über George Curtius’Schrift ‘Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung’ and Brugmann’s retort Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft appeared soon thereafter. Later that year appeared Schuchardt’s attack Über die Lautgesetze: Gegen die Junggrammatiker. Collitz’article Die neueste Sprachforschung und die Erklärung des indogermanischen Ablautes did not appear until 1886 followed soon by Osthoff’s reply Die neueste Sprachforschung und die Erklärung des indogermanischen Ablautes: Antwort auf die gleichnamige Schrift von Dr. Hermann Collitz. Jespersen’s criticism of the neogrammarians appeared in German translation as Zur Lautgesetzfrage in1887.
The volume provides an Introduction and Select Bibliography.
The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970
Jan 1977
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The phenomenon of absolutist prescriptive correctness is persistent and pervasive in the linguistic through of educated and intelligent citizens of the United States. This volume is not only and attempt to gain some understanding of the source nature and operation of the prescriptive attitude but also to examine it in the light of what Einar Haugen (1972) has called the ‘ecology of language’ that is the relationship between language attitudes and other social and cultural behavior.
Dissertation on the Sanskrit Language
Jan 1977
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Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo’s Dissertatio historico-critica in linguam Samscrdamicam (1790) serves as an introduction to his Sidharubam the first Sanskrit grammar published in Europe. The Dissertatio is also important for another reason: it is concerned with speculations about the nature and origin of Sanskrit and the other Indian Languages. It raises questions about their relation to each other and to languages outside India. It bears witness to the fact that Paulinus was on of those few who heralded the era of comparative philology long before its official consecration. In addition it offers an opportunity to study the range of working instruments available to Indic scholarship at the end of the 18th century.
This volume contains a fac simile edition of the Latin original an English translation an introductory article and an index of sources.
This volume contains a fac simile edition of the Latin original an English translation an introductory article and an index of sources.
'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi' : A critical edition
Jan 1977
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This book provides a critical edition translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus the authorship is debated.The format of the twenty-one questions of this text follows the standard pattern of the time: after stating the question the author cites as argumenta opinions with which he does not agree gives his own answer and then refutes the argumenta.
For the author of these questions three issues are paramount: the scientific status of grammar the problem of universals and the 'structure of the device' through which language was generated.
For the author of these questions three issues are paramount: the scientific status of grammar the problem of universals and the 'structure of the device' through which language was generated.
Adverbs and Comparatives : An analytical bibliography
Jan 1977
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There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take within a syntactic string has proved to be much more difficult to determine than had previously been thought. Still another reason for the increase of interest in this topic may be found in the recent trend in linguistics which focusses on communicative competence and actual language use in daily discourse. Although this bibliography has no claim to exhaustiveness it should nonetheless be useful to researchers working on adverbs and comparatives. The titles selected relate in one way or another to the problems the linguist faces with respect to the adverb.
Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics : Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann
Jan 1977
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This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon Ralph M. Goodman Maurice Gross Einar Haugen David G. Hays Archibald A. Hill Mohammad Ali Jazayery E.F.K. Koerner D. Terence Langendoen Don L.F. Nilsen Arthur L. Palacas Sol Saporta Sanford A. Schane Jacob Mey Anders Ahlqvist Simon C. Dik Robert T. Harms Saul Levin Yakov Malkiel D. Gary Miller William G. Moulton Edgar C. Polomé Gary D. Prideaux Luigi Romeo Maria Tsiapera Krystyna Wachowicz Mridula Adenwala Durbin Paul J. Hopper Aaron Bar-Adon.
Summa modorum significandi; Sophismata : New edition, on the basis of G. Wallerand's editio prima
Jan 1977
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The writings of Siger of Courtrai were first edited by Gaston Wallerand in 1913. This new edition on the basis of Wallerand's editio prima with additions critical notes and an introduction by Jan Pinborg reprints the two works from that edition that have an immediate relevance for the study of medieval grammar i.e. the Summa modorum significandi and the Sophismata. To this have been added some critical notes correcting the text of Wallerand where his readings were faulty and supplying references of the sources. Finally three more Sophismata which have recently been recovered are here edited for the first time.
The Summa is a compendium which closely follows Priscian’s Institutiones but puts the doctrinal elements from Priscian into the frame of reference characteristic of Modistic literature. The importance of Siger’s Sophismata in the context of this volume is that they offer a more thorough discussion of the fundamental logico-epistemological tenets presupposed in his linguistic theory.
The Summa is a compendium which closely follows Priscian’s Institutiones but puts the doctrinal elements from Priscian into the frame of reference characteristic of Modistic literature. The importance of Siger’s Sophismata in the context of this volume is that they offer a more thorough discussion of the fundamental logico-epistemological tenets presupposed in his linguistic theory.
Papers on Language Theory and History : Volume I: Creation and Tradition in Language
Jan 1977
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Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of speech is the word that the central problem of language theory is lexis. Word-meaning is typically complicated by changes across time; for a theory of language creativity these effects must be discerned from spontaneous creation. The articles brought together in this volume attempt to illuminate on the basis of particular lexical studies the dynamics of perception and word-meaning of language and mind.
Analogy : A basic bibliography
Jan 1977
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This basic bibliography of analogy aims to be a useful tool for linguistic research. The compilers have emphasized the years from 1868 onwards starting with Scherer’s statement but a few important premonitory works have been included as well.
Friedrich Nicolais Satiren : Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts
Jan 1977
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Satiren wurden oft als ästhetische Kunstübung gesehen aber der Satiriker Friedrich Nicolai (1733–1811) hatte die Frage nach dem Wahren so eindringlich wie auch ein Kritiker gestellt. Damit bekam die Satire eine neue Deutung und hat diese die Kulturgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts wesentlich beeinflusst.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Die vorliegende Studie dokumentiert Friedrich Nicolais Satiren insofern diese neben der Kritik als wesensbestimmende Waffe des Aufklärers Nicolai anzusehen waren.
Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's 'Ring' : A Study of the Narrative in its Relation to the Traditional Topoi of Marriage, Folly and Play
Jan 1977
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This volume investigates Heinrich Wittenwiler’s famous poem Ring. Main focus is the relation of the narrative to the traditional topoi of marriage folly and play.
'Über den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Über den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)
Jan 1977
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Über den Umlaut (1843) and Über den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of guṇa and accent. At the same time he noted that loss (or absence) of the accent could mean loss or shortening of a vowel. Observations which be it in a different form eventually found their way into a unified theory of Indo-European vowel gradation.
The two German texts are presented here in fac simile format together with an introductory article.
The two German texts are presented here in fac simile format together with an introductory article.
Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet
Jan 1976
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This volume reprints — with additions and corrections — seven papers originally published 1962–1973 on the indigenous grammars of Tibet and their linguistic tradition. Two ancient treatises commonly attributed to “Thon-mi Sambhoṭa” are studied extensively as well as extracts from many other Tibetan texts with translations commentaries and detailed bibliographical data covering a wide range of linguistic doctrines from the early 11th to the beginning of the 20th century. The final article incorporates a complete grammatical sketch of Classical Tibetan; this together with the comprehensive indexes of Tibetan and Indic grammatical and technical terms proper names titles etc. will facilitate the use of the volume as a basic reference-source for all future work on the Tibetan grammarians.
Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal : Werkstruktur und Interpretation
Jan 1976
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Der Stricker war ein deutscher Fabeldichter der in der ersten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts lebte. In dieser Publikation wird versucht der harrenden Frage “welche Stellenwert der Stricker in der nachklassischen Romantradition genau eingenommen hat” eine Lösung zu liefern; besonders wird Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal behandelt.
Chronologisches Verzeichnis französischer Grammatiken vom Ende des 14. bis zum Ausgange des 18. Jahrhunderts, nebst Angabe der bisher ermittelten Fundorte derselben
Jan 1976
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This volume (1976) contains a fac simile reprint of the original 1890 edition of Stengel’s Chronologisches Verzeichnis Französischer Grammatiken. In addition it contains an appendix by Hans-Josef Niederehe which gives a short biography of E.M. Stengel and brings together the additions and corrections to the Verzeichnis which Stengel published in other sources in 1890 and 1896.
In Memoriam Friedrich Diez: Akten des Kolloquiums zum Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik/Actes du Colloque sur l'Histoire des Etudes Romanes/ Proc
Jan 1976
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The first 'Kolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik' (Trier 1975) was held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Friedrich Diez the founder of Romance philology. The colloquium offered Romanists and historians of linguistics the opportunity for intense discussion which is continued in the papers in this volume.
The Development of Morphophonemic Theory
Jan 1976
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The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the development of morphophonemic theory contemporary work in this area is not of central concern. But the study was undertaken in the hope that a better understanding of earlier work would help to clarify present-day issues.
A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
Jan 1976
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This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition with an added bio-bibliography of Rask should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this important 19th-century scholar who together with Bopp and Grimm has justly been ranked among the founding fathers of the comparative-historical study of Indo-European languages.
Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist but also with language as a system based on a notion of structure comprised of three key ideas: the idea of wholeness the idea of transformation (derivation and composition) and the idea of self-regulation. He formulated theoretical and practical premises for the composition of grammars and in this he was far ahead of his time and in closer proximity to the linguistic concerns and problems of our era. From both theoretical and pedagogical points of view Rask’s grammar of Icelandic remains a most remarkable work.
Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist but also with language as a system based on a notion of structure comprised of three key ideas: the idea of wholeness the idea of transformation (derivation and composition) and the idea of self-regulation. He formulated theoretical and practical premises for the composition of grammars and in this he was far ahead of his time and in closer proximity to the linguistic concerns and problems of our era. From both theoretical and pedagogical points of view Rask’s grammar of Icelandic remains a most remarkable work.
Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe : Historico-linguistic studies (London, 1885)
Jan 1976
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New edition prepared with a bio-bibliographical account of Hehn and a survay of the research into Indo-European prehistory by James P. Mallory.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> It was Hehn who for the first time combined the tools of comparative linguistics and the direct historical approach in order to discover the origins of domesticated animals and cultivated plants in the ancient world tracing their diffusion from one culture to another. Hehn abandoned his contemporaries’often idealized and nationalistic image of the ancient Indo-Europeans seeking instead to reconstruct early Indo-European society in agreement with the ethnological research of his day.