William Poole

List of John Benjamins publications in which William Poole is involved.

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Poole, William 2003 The divine and the grammarian: Theological disputes in the 17th-century universal language movement Historiographia Linguistica 30:3, pp. 273–300 | Article

This paper discusses the theological background of the linguistic ideas of the three major universal language-planners writing and publishing in England in the 17th century, John Wilkins, George Dalgarno, and Francis Lodwick. Through an examination of these men’s attitudes to the three biblical… read more