Vivian Salmon

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vivian Salmon is involved.

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Language and Society in Early Modern England: Selected essays 1982–1994

Vivian Salmon

This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The Study of Universal and Particular Traits of Language, and 3. Language Learning and Language Instruction. The volume is completed by an… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 77] 1996. viii, 276 pp.

The Study of Language in 17th-Century England: Second Edition

Vivian Salmon

This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 17] 1988. x, 218 pp.

A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama

Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness

In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 35] 1987. xx, 523 pp.

Salmon, Vivian 2003 Some notes on the life and work of John Minsheu (1560–1627) Historiographia Linguistica 30:3, pp. 259–272 | Article

John Minsheu (1560–1627) has long been known to historians of lexicography as the author of an impressive comparative and etymological dictionary, Ductor in Linguas (1617). Less well known is his grammar of Spanish (1599), which is unusual for its time in displaying interest in socio-linguistic… read more

Salmon, Vivian 1992 'Philosophical' Grammar in Wilkins' Essay John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics, Subbiondo, Joseph L. (ed.), pp. 207–236 | To be specified

Salmon, Vivian 1992 John Wilkins' Essay (1668): Critics and continuators John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics, Subbiondo, Joseph L. (ed.), pp. 349–364 | To be specified

Salmon, Vivian 1992 Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) and the English origins of Algonkian linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 19:1, pp. 25–56 | Article

Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) was an outstanding mathematician and astronomer whose scientific writings – had they not been allowed to remain in manuscript – would long ago have earned for him an international esteem comparable with that of Galileo and Kepler. Only in recent decades has his status… read more

Salmon, Vivian 1992 Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship: A Survey of 17th-Century Achievements The History of Linguistics in the Low Countries, Noordegraaf, Jan, Kees Versteegh and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 129–154 | Article

Salmon, Vivian 1988 Anglo-Dutch linguistic scholarship: A survey of seventeenth-century achievements Historiographia Linguistica 15:1/2, pp. 129–153 | Article

Although political, social and cultural relationships between 17th-century England and the Netherlands have inspired several books and articles, no general account has yet been produced of the linguistic achievements, academic and applied, which resulted to a large extent from the common personal… read more

Salmon, Vivian 1987 Sentence Structures in Colloquial Shakespearian English A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, Salmon, Vivian and Edwina Burness, pp. 265–300 | Chapter

Salmon, Vivian 1987 Some Functions of Shakespearian Word-Formation A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, Salmon, Vivian and Edwina Burness, pp. 193–206 | Chapter

Salmon, Vivian 1987 Elizabethan Colloquial English in the Falstaff Plays A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, Salmon, Vivian and Edwina Burness, pp. 37–70 | Chapter

Salmon, Vivian 1985 Missionary linguistics in seventeenth century Ireland and a North American Analogy Historiographia Linguistica 12:3, pp. 321–349 | Article

Accounts of Christian missionary linguists in the 16th and 17th centuries are usually devoted to their achievements in the Americas and the Far East, and it is seldom remarked that, at the time when English Protestant missionaries were attempting to meet the challenge of unknown languages on the… read more

Salmon, Vivian 1982 Wh- and Yes/no questions: Charles butler’s grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh, Anderson, John A.E. (ed.), pp. 401–426 | Article

Salmon, Vivian 1980 Review of Görlach (1978): Einfuhrung ins Frühneuenglische English World-Wide 1:1, pp. 133–134 | Review

Salmon, Vivian 1975 John Brinsley: 17th-Century Pioneer in Applied Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 2:2, pp. 175–189 | Article

John Brinsley (1566-c.1630) seems to have been the first English scholar to publish a comprehensive language-teaching course for students of Latin. His first textbook, which appeared in 1612, was a lengthy discussion of teaching method; it was followed by a grammar, and by translations of Latin… read more

Salmon, Vivian 1974 John Wilkins’ Essay (1668): Critics and continuators Historiographia Linguistica 1:2, pp. 147–163 | Article

One of the major achievements of Britsh linguistic scholarship before the 19th century was John Wilkins’ (1609–72) Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668), which attempted to construct, for scientific purposes, a language in which the elements were isomorphic with the… read more