"Volume I of Edward Sapir's Collected Works contains the reedition of Sapir's papers and reviews in general linguistics, in the philosophy of language and linguistics (the origin of language; general semantics; the construction of an international auxiliary language), as well as his articles on 'language' and 'dialect' written for the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. The texts have been reedited and supplied with an introductory study an ..."
"This collective volume contains studies in the field of ancient grammar, poetics and philosophy of language. The contributions, written by specialists in the field, focus on central themes in the historiography of ancient linguistics, such as the status of grammar as a discipline in Antiquity, the relationship between poetics and grammatical theory, the constitution and development of the word class system, the descriptive format of gra ..."
Trois linguistes trop oubliés Antoine Meillet, Sylvain Lévi, Ferdinand Brunot. Actes des journées d'études, IMED, abbaye d'Ardenne, Caen, 15-17 septembre 2008 von Claude Ravelet, PierreSwiggers Paperback, 278 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von L'harmattan ISBN-13: 978-2-296-11081-6, ISBN: 2-296-11081-9
Histoire de la pensée linguistique(1st Edition) Analyse du langage et réflexion linguistique dans la culture occidentale de l'Antiquité au XIXè siècle (Linguistique nouvelle) (French Edition) von PierreSwiggers Paperback, 312 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1997 von Presses Universitaires De France ISBN-13: 978-2-13-048709-8, ISBN: 2-13-048709-2
"English summary: Leon Cledat (1851-1930), the founder and director of the Revue de philologie francaise (l'ancienne Revue des patois), was one of the remarkable figures of French linguistics. This collection contains contributions that deal with Cledat's personality, his grammatical and linguistic concepts, his institutional role, and his position within the scientific context of his time. French text. French description: Leon Cledat ( ..."
"Haiim B. Rosen (1922-1999) received his philological and linguistic training in Europe and Israel, and taught in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and, on various occasions, in France, Germany and the United States. He has published extensively in the field of Indo-European and Semitic Linguistics (cf. the three volumes of East and West. Selected Writings in Linguistics), and has made a pioneering contribution to the description of contemporary Hebr ..."
Syntax in Antiquity (Orbis (Louvain, Belgium). Supplementa, T. 23,) von PierreSwiggers, Alfons Wouters Hardcover, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Peeters Pub & Booksellers ISBN-13: 978-2-87723-753-6, ISBN: 2-87723-753-2
"The volume, which constitutes a tribute to the scholarly work of Jean Lallot, contains contributions on the history of syntax in Antiquity (including the later Byzantine period). The various papers highlight the problematic status of syntactic description in ancient grammar. The contributions are grouped into four sections, the first of which deals with the status of syntactic description and reflection in Antiquity, the second with Ale ..."
The Prix Volney Early Nineteenth-Century Contributions to General and Amerindian Linguistics: Du Ponceau and Rafinesque (Prix Volney Essay Series) (v. 2) von Joan Leopold, PierreSwiggers, Charles Boewe, Robert H. Robins Hardcover, 340 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-2506-2, ISBN: 0-7923-2506-0
"In Volume II, the focus is on the authors who competed for the prize of 1835, the only year in which the theme of the contest was restricted to Amerindian (particularly Delaware) linguistics. The two competitors, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, both lived in the United States, but were of French and Swiss extraction and able to write their essays in French. R.H. Robins, of the School of Oriental and African ..."
"This book contains the first Dutch translation (with ample notes), of the oldest grammatical manual in the West, Dionysius Thrax's Tekhne Grammatike, dating to the second/first century B.C. The translation, based on a thorough philological reexamination of the Greek text, is preceded by an extensive introduction, dealing with the textual transmission of the Greek manual, the background of Dionysius's grammatical conceptions (rooted in p ..."
L'oeuvre scientifique de Cyprien Ayer(1st Edition) (1825-1884): Grammaire, Pédagogie et Dialectologie (Orbis / Supplementa) (French Edition) von PierreSwiggers Paperback, 188 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Peeters Publishers ISBN-13: 978-90-429-2742-1, ISBN: 90-429-2742-9
"English summary: Cyprien Ayer (1825-1884) was an essential figure in nineteenth-century Swiss intellectual society and author of a vast literary, journalist, and scientific corpus. This collection re-edits his work on grammar, pedagogy, and dialectology, one the pioneer works in of Franco-Provencal studies. Also included are study of Ayers career and a bibliography of his scientific works. French description: Cyprien Ayer (1825-1888), f ..."
"The papers in this volume reflect the changes in the linguistic landscape, and illustrate the dynamics of linguistic situations in Europe. Whereas some contributions offer theoretically distanced views on linguistic identity, linguistic internationalisation and linguistic adaptation, other papers provide empirical documentation on language policies, language loss or retention, code-switching in migrant communities, and linguistic rights ..."
"Dans le développement de la grammaire générale, les articles linguistiques de l'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert, réunis plus tard dans l'Encyclopédie méthodique: Grammaire et littérature constituent un point culminant: on y ..."
"Pour Georges Kleiber, la linguistique est (aussi) un champ de divertissement (langagier). On ne s'etonnera donc pas qu'un groupe de collegues, amis, collaborateurs et anciens etudiants aient decide d'offrir a Georges Kleiber cet ouvrage collectif en temoignage de leur amicale estime et, pourquoi ne pas le dire, de leur admiration. Les dimensions limitees du volume n'ont malheureusement pas permis aux editeurs d'accueillir tous ceux - et ..."
E.F.K. Koerner. A Bio-Bibliographical Notice(1st Edition) (Biobibliographies et exposes Nouvelle Serie) von PierreSwiggers Paperback, 196 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Peeters Publishers ISBN-13: 978-90-429-0800-0, ISBN: 90-429-0800-9
"This fascicle contains the complete bibliography up to 1999 of E.F. Konrad Koerner, the founder and director of the journal Historiographia Linguistica (1974-), and editor of Diachronica and of various specialized linguistic series. Koerner's scholarly work, which is surveyed in the introductory "Biographical notice" (by P. Swiggers) focuses on the history of linguistics in the past two centuries, especially on the relationship between ..."
"The volume contains the texts of interviews realized with three linguists: the late Andre-Georges Haudricourt (1911-1996), Henry M. Hoenigswald (born in 1915) and Robert H. Robins (born in 1921). The book has a twofold objective: on the one hand, its goal is to bring together a number of "inside" testimonies on fundamental issues in linguistics; on the other hand, it is intended to provide a personalized documentation which is particula ..."
"L'essentiel de son texte est consacré au noyau de la grammaire comparée,
France fut deux fois privé d'un maître qui eût été pour lui une force et un honneur
» (Bréal 1884m: 816b-817a). (2) On ne saurait oublier que la création de celte
nouvelle chaire n'a été possible que par la décision du ministre Victor Duruy de
transporter la chaire de grammaire comparée de la Sorbonne au Collège de
France. Dans la mesure où Charles-Benoît Hase ..."
"C. VIELLE - P. SWIGGERS - G. JUCQUOIS éds, Comparatisme, mythologies,
langages en hommage à Claude Lévi-Strauss. Avant-propos (C. VIELLE - P.
SWIGGERS - G. JUCQUOIS) 7 P. SWIGGERS - C. vIELLE, Claude Lévi-Strauss:
présentation biobibliographique 9 P. SWIGGERS C. VIELLE, Mythe et langage,
objets de comparaison. En guise d'introduction 15 I. Mythologies P. SWIGGERS,
Le mythe: vers une typologisation structurelle «profonde» 23 C. vIEL ..."