George J. Metcalf

List of John Benjamins publications in which George J. Metcalf is involved.

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On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung

George J. Metcalf

From the Renaissance onwards, European scholars began to collect and study the various languages of the Old and the New Worlds. The recognition of language diversity encouraged them to explain how differences between languages emerged, why languages kept changing, and in what language families they… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 120] 2013. viii, 181 pp.

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Metcalf, George J. 1980 Theodor Bibliander (1504–1564) and the Languages of Japheth’s Progeny Historiographia Linguistica 7:3, pp. 323–333 | Article

Theodor Bibliander (1504–1564) was an important link in developing the concept of the language family that is now called Indo-European. ‘Lector’ for the Greek of the Septuagint at the Münsterschule in Zürich (Zwingli’s successor), Bibliander had early showed aptitude for languages and had devoted… read more