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Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 2, Issue 3, 1975
Volume 2, Issue 3, 1975
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English in Latin Guise: A Note On Some Renaissance Textbooks
Author(s): Nils Erik Enkvistpp.: 283–298 (16)More LessThe balance between Latin and English in 16th and 17th-century school grammars is of particular interest in the light of textbooks such as Joshua Poole's English Accidence (1646), which could be described as a grammar of Latin entirely in English. The aim of such books was to make the study of Latin grammar easier for beginners. But the classroom procedures they reflect must also have added precision to the pupils' views of the structural differences between Latin and English, and contributed to the pupils' understanding of the structure of their mother tongue.
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Schleicher, Celakovsky, and the Family-Tree Diagram
Author(s): Tom M.S. Priestlypp.: 299–333 (35)More LessThe first family-tree diagram in August Schleicher's (1821-68) published work appeared in 1853, seven years after his first printed discussion of the family-tree concept. In 1853 there also appeared Ctení o srovnavací mluvnici slovanské by the Czech scholar Frantiek Ladislav Celakovsky (1799-1852); this book also contained a family-tree diagram. Since Celakovsky and Schleicher were contemporaries in Prague for over two years, their interrelationship is of interest: was this rivalry of collaboration? At first sight, a coincidence seems improbable.In the available work on and by Schleicher, Celakovský is never mentioned; in the writings on and by Celakovský, Schleicher's name is never linked to his. However, the two had very many common interests. Apart from being colleagues at Charles University, they shared the same friends and enemies, were both interested in music and botany, and so on. Moreover, both were working on Slavic Historical Linguistics during the period in question. On the other hand, their personalities, were such that the possibility of a mutual antipathy must not be excluded.Given the background to Celakovský's life and work, including the legends of the common origin of the Slavs and the obviously close interrelationships of the Slavic languages; the burgeoning of interest in Slavic history and linguistics, and in Panslavicism; the popularity of genealogy; and the developments in classificatory techniques along natural scientific lines, it is argued that Cela-kovsky's depiction of a family-tree for the Slavic languages could be quite naturally expected from him at this point in time, without any influence from Schleicher. On the other hand, Schleicher's first family-tree diagrams were the next logical step in his own development. Moreover, the actual form of the diagrams in question suggests that they may indeed have been developed independently. This puzzle in the history of linguistics remains unsolved: collaboration, rivalry, and coincidence are all possible.
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Friedrich Engels Zwischen Anthropologie und Sprachwissenschaft
Author(s): Paolo Ramatpp.: 335–351 (17)More LessThe author aims to show that Friedrich Engels' linguistic researches, especially in his Der fränkische Dialekt, are to be considered within the same theoretical framework of historic materialism which underlies his more comprehensive studies on the history of primitive peoples, such as the ancient Germanic or Celtic tribes. The main difference, however, between Engels' so-cio-anthropological and his linguistic studies is that for the latter he did not elaborate an evolution model based on the theories of Darwin or L. H. Morgan, for instance, which clearly underlie the former. On the contrary, Engels' linguistic investigation of his own dialect is 'data-oriented' in a very pragmatic way. This is to be seen also as a reaction against the rigid schematism of the neogrammarian school; thus Engels polemicizes against Wilhelm Braune who took the second consonant shift as the only and conclusive criterion for classifying the German dialects. Nevertheless repeated statements in Engels' correspondence and other writings make it clear that he was fully aware of the fact that historical linguistics - and especially the comparative method - had inaugurated a new chapter in the history of language study. Parallels between Engels' linguistic investigations and his socio-anthropological studies can be shown to exist not at the more superficial level of techniques of analysis, but rather at a deeper one: both are part of a global 'science of man' and to be based on a materialistic and dialectic point of view.
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Theorie Et Histoire De La Linguistique
Author(s): Raffaele Simonepp.: 353–378 (26)More LessThe history of linguistics is presented as a crucial part of linguistics as a whole, in view of its contribution to the understanding of the logical and cognitive structure and evolution of the linguistic discipline itself. The basis for this view is to be found in Saussure's distinction between the 'matter' and 'object' of linguistic science: what changes through time is not merely the object of study, namely, the complex system we call 'language', but also its matter, since the evidence we put forward is not simply given per se, but is selected by the investigator in accordance with certain determinants both internal and external to the discipline. Furthermore, this change affects the way in which evidence and theory are linked, i.e., the cognitive procedures leading from the former to the latter, which in turn are influenced by internal and external factors. This thesis is illustrated in a discussion of three crucial chapters in the history of linguistic thinking: Renaissance philosophy of language, Port-Royal linguistic theory, and Saussure.
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