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Volume 41, Issue 1, 2014
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Lexicography in the Philippines (1600–1800)
Author(s): Rebeca Fernández Rodríguezpp.: 1–32 (32)More LessSpanish missionary lexicography in America and the Philippines is extensive and deserving of detailed research. In the Philippines, from 1600 up to 1898, more than fifty vocabularies were published in thirteen different languages. Alongside these are numerous vocabularies preserved only as manuscripts and others that are known to be lost. Following some recent publications on Philippine lexicography, in particular bibliographic surveys and studies of specific vocabularies (García-Medall 2004, 2009; Sueiro Justel 2003; Fernández Rodríguez 2009, 2012), as well as Smith-Stark’s (2009) work on Mexican lexicography, this paper presents a contrastive analysis of the lexicographic styles of seven Philippine vocabularies of five different languages: Tagalog, Visayan, Pampango, Bicol and Ilokano. Through examination of the lexicographic characteristics of the most important vocabularies written in the first two centuries of Spanish presence in the Philippines (1600–1800), the present writer tries to establish the lexicographical models used by the missionaries: whether they followed the existing models (mainly Nebrija, Molina and Calepino) or if they created a novel Philippine model. The authors of these vocabularies were missionaries of different Orders: Augustinian, Dominican, Franciscan, and Jesuits. All these vocabularies are bilingual and bidirectional, with the sole exception of the unidirectional Ilokano vocabulary.
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The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics
Author(s): Marcin Kilarskipp.: 33–78 (46)More LessThis article examines the approaches to classifiers within the Western tradition, ranging from the earliest accounts of the languages of Mesoamerica and East Asia from the 16th-17th centuries to ongoing discussions regarding their semantic motivation and functionality. I show that in spite of the limited attention they attracted before the 1970s, classifiers have played an important role in discussions concerning such notions as the functions of grammatical categories, the distinction between grammar and lexicon as well as the cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure. In addition, I attribute common assumptions about classifiers to projections of typical properties of grammatical gender and, more generally, semantic and morphosyntactic properties of non-classifier languages.
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L’hypothèse de Firth: Wittgenstein, héritier de Malinowski?
Author(s): Béatrice Godart-Wendlingpp.: 79–108 (30)More LessThe aim of this paper is to study the grounds for John Rupert Firth’s (1890–1960) assumption that the 1923 paper, “The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages” by the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), would be a source of inspiration that would lead Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) to develop a new conception of meaning in terms of ‘use’. Based on certain excerpts of Philosophical Investigations (1953), Firth established a filiation between Malinowski’s two key ideas, namely the importance of the notion of ‘context of situation’ and the idea that language is a ‘mode of action’) and the main theses that Wittgenstein promoted (meaning as use, language acquisition, language as a set of games). Assessing the force of that claim will lead to clarifying the synergy of ideas that took place in the matter of pragmatics in Great Britain of the first half of the 20th century.
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L’étrange destin d’un livre: La soi-disant Grammaire arabe de William Wright (1830–1889)
Author(s): Pierre Larcherpp.: 109–126 (18)More LessClassical Arabic scholars continue to refer to A Grammar of the Arabic Language by William Wright (1830–1889) which they generally cite without any further precision. In doing so, they dissimulate the long history of this work. Basically, it is the translation, published in two volumes (1859 and 1862), of the second edition, in German, of the Grammatik der arabischen Sprache (1859) by Carl Paul Caspari (1814–1892). However, this book has itself a long history. A first edition was published, in Latin, in 1848, under the title of Grammatica arabica. The first part (Doctrina de elementis et formis) had even been printed for the first time in 1844. In the preface to the 1848 Latin edition, Caspari quotes his two main sources: the Grammaire arabe (11810, 21831) by Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838) and the Grammatica critica linguae arabicae, in two volumes (1831 and 1833, respectively), by Heinrich Ewald (1803–1875). The German version of Caspari’s Arabic Grammar was reedited in 1866. A new edition appeared in 1876, prepared by August Müller (1848–1892). This fourth edition was translated into French (two printings, in 1880 and 1881) by an amazing personality, the Colombian Ezequiel Uricoechea (1834–1880). It was also republished (5th and last edition) in 1887. As for Wright’s Arabic Grammar, a second edition, “revised and greatly enlarged” appeared, in two volumes, in 1874 and 1875, and a third edition, revised by William Robertson Smith (1846–1896) and Michael Jan de Goeje (1836–1909), also in two volumes, appeared in 1896 and 1898. This third edition, with some modifications due to Anthony Ashley Bevan (1859–1933), was reprinted in 1933. The latter, constantly reprinted, is the one Arabists generally refer to. Wright’s Arabic Grammar thus appears as the collective work of the 19th and early 20th century’s European orientalism. Interestingly, it also came to remind us that it is impossible to undertake the history of the field without the knowledge of two of its great academic languages: Latin and German.
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