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  • Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study, Linguistics, Science Studies and the History of Science
    Item Type:
    Article

  • La grammaticalisation et la circulation internationale des idées linguistiques

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study, Linguistics
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    grammaticalization, History of linguistics

  • Rezension: Sebastian Fink, Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer, und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics
    Item Type:
    Review

  • The diachronic evolution of the directional particle lái in Mandarin

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Linguistics
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics, Historical linguistics, China, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Sinology

  • Georg von der Gabelentz

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Wilhelm von Humboldt, H. Steinthal, grammar-writing, grammaticalization, typology, History of linguistics

  • August Schleicher and Materialism in 19th-Century Linguistics

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics, History, Materialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    History of linguistics

  • Ogden and Richards’ The Meaning of Meaning and early analytic philosophy

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    Analytic Philosophy, History of Linguistics and Language Study
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics, History, Semiotics, Semantics, Analysis (Philosophy)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    History of linguistics, semiotics, semantics, analytic philosophy

  • Linguistic Aesthetics from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century: The Case of Otto Jespersen’s “Progress in Language”

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Analytic Philosophy, History of Linguistics and Language Study, Linguistics
    Subject(s):
    Idea (Philosophy), History, Linguistics, Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    History of Humanities, interlinguistics, Jespersen, History of ideas, History of linguistics, History of philosophy

  • The application of C.K. Ogden’s semiotics in Basic English

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics, Semiotics, Semantics, Language, Universal
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Ogden, interlinguistics

  • International Language and the Everyday: Contact and Collaboration Between C.K. Ogden, Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    Analytic Philosophy, History of Linguistics and Language Study, Linguistics
    Subject(s):
    Analysis (Philosophy), Philosophy, History, Idea (Philosophy)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Carnap, Ogden, Neurath, Isotype, diagrams, Vienna Circle, Analytical philosophy, History of philosophy, History of ideas

  • Grammar, typology and the Humboldtian tradition in the work of Georg von der Gabelentz

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study, Linguistics
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics, History, Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835, Typology (Linguistics), Grammar
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Gabelentz, Humboldt, Steinthal, History of linguistics, Humboldtian linguistics, typology, language description, grammar

  • Christina Behme, Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics: From historic antecedents to computational modeling (Frankfurt am Main, 2014)

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study, Linguistics
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Cartesian linguistics, Chomsky

  • Comptes rendus

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2016
    Subject(s):
    Linguistics
    Item Type:
    Book review

  • The fate of form in the Humboldtian tradition: The Formungstrieb of Georg von der Gabelentz

    Author(s):
    James McElvenny
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    History of Linguistics and Language Study, Linguistics
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Gabelentz, Humboldt, Steinthal

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