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James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Focusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Focusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Focusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Focusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
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James McElvenny deposited La grammaticalisation et la circulation internationale des idées linguistiques in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Research into grammaticalization has an established genealogy, which records the birth of the term “grammaticalization” in more or less its present-day sense with Antoine Meillet (1866–1936), but recognizes an intellectual lineage extending back to at least the Enlightenment. Among the immediate predecessors of Meillet, Georg von der Gabel…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited La grammaticalisation et la circulation internationale des idées linguistiques in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Research into grammaticalization has an established genealogy, which records the birth of the term “grammaticalization” in more or less its present-day sense with Antoine Meillet (1866–1936), but recognizes an intellectual lineage extending back to at least the Enlightenment. Among the immediate predecessors of Meillet, Georg von der Gabel…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited La grammaticalisation et la circulation internationale des idées linguistiques on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Research into grammaticalization has an established genealogy, which records the birth of the term “grammaticalization” in more or less its present-day sense with Antoine Meillet (1866–1936), but recognizes an intellectual lineage extending back to at least the Enlightenment. Among the immediate predecessors of Meillet, Georg von der Gabel…[Read more]
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
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James McElvenny deposited Rezension: Sebastian Fink, Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer, und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
Rezension
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James McElvenny deposited Rezension: Sebastian Fink, Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer, und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
Rezension
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James McElvenny deposited The diachronic evolution of the directional particle lái in Mandarin in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
Grammaticalization of directional particle lái in Chinese.
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James McElvenny deposited The diachronic evolution of the directional particle lái in Mandarin on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
Grammaticalization of directional particle lái in Chinese.
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
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James McElvenny's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
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