35.2912, Books: Elementa universalis linguae Slavicae: Maxwell, Van Rooy, and Herkel (2024)

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Subject: 35.2912, Books: Elementa universalis linguae Slavicae: Maxwell, Van Rooy, and Herkel (2024)

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Date: 17-Oct-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Elementa universalis linguae Slavicae: Maxwell, Van Rooy, and Herkel (2024)


Title: Elementa universalis linguae Slavicae
Subtitle: Annotated translation with introductory essays by Raf Van
Rooy and Alexander Maxwell
Series Title: History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/399

Author: Jan Herkel
Editor: Alexander Maxwell
Editor: Raf Van Rooy
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-96110-484-0 Pages: 219 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

In 1826, as nationalism first began percolating through the Habsburg
lands, Jan Herkel published a Latin-language Slavic grammar. Herkel, a
lawyer and amateur linguist, came from the northern counties the
Kingdom of Hungary which now form the Slovak Republic. Though he was
inspired by a romantic love of his native language, Herkel imagined a
single "Slavic language," divided into various "dialects." He proposed
a single grammar for the whole Slavic world, attempting to encompass
and yet restrain the diversity of orthography, morphology, phonology,
and so forth found across Slavic varieties. Herkel was also the coiner
of the term "panslavism", which he used to describe his efforts. This
book provides the first English translation of Herkel's noteworthy
grammar, with short notes. The book also contains a preface and
explanatory essays by co-translators Raf Van Rooy and Alexander
Maxwell. The preface introduces the topic of the book. Maxwell then
gives a biography of Herkel, discusses linguistic nationalism in
Slavic northern Hungary, and the legacy of panslavism. Van Rooy
explores Herkel's key notion of the "genius" of the Slavic language as
the legacy of early modern linguistic thought.

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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