24.4075, Books: On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung: Hal, Rooy (Eds), Metcalf

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:55:10
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung: Hal, Rooy (Eds), Metcalf

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Title: On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung 
Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 120  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/sihols.120 

Author: George J. Metcalf
Editor: Toon Van Hal
Editor: Raf Van Rooy

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Abstract:

>From the Renaissance onwards, European scholars began to collect and study the
various languages of the Old and the New Worlds. The recognition of language
diversity encouraged them to explain how differences between languages
emerged, why languages kept changing, and in what language families they could
be classified. The present volume brings together the papers of the late
George J. Metcalf (1908–1994) that discuss the search for possible genetic
language relationships, and the study of language developments and origins, in
Early Modern Europe. Two general chapters, surveying the period between the
16th and 18th century, are followed by detailed case studies of the
contributions of Swiss, Dutch, and German scholars such as Theodor Bibliander
(1504–1564), Konrad Gesner (1516–1565), Philippus Cluverius (1580–1623), Hugo
Grotius (1583–1645), and Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676). This collection
of important studies, a number of which have become very hard to find, has
been framed by a detailed Editors’ Introduction, a biographical sketch of the
author, a master list of references, and indexes of biographical names and of
subjects, terms, and languages.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Written In: English  (eng)

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