On language diversity and relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
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...
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2013.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ;
v. 120, |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b29228323*spi |
| Sumario: | 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 bet. |
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| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9789027271495 9781299828568 |
