Mark E. Amsler

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mark E. Amsler is involved.

Journal

Historiographia Linguistica

International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences

Edited by Jean-Michel Fortis and Otto Zwartjes

ISSN 0302-5160 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9781

Titles

Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600

Edited by Anneli Luhtala and Mark E. Amsler

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 44:2/3 (2017) vi, 270 pp.

Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Mark E. Amsler

This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of etymologia in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages. Etymologia is a fundamental procedure and discursive strategy in the philosophy and analysis of language in early medieval Latin grammar, as well as in Biblical exegesis,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 44] 1989. xi, 280 pp.

Articles (7) | Order by:

Amsler, Mark E. 2019 Making a genealogy of “American linguistics” with John Eliot’s Indian Grammar Begun (1666) Historiographia Linguistica 46:3, pp. 33–56 | Article

In the history of linguistics John Pickering (1777–1846) and Stephen Du Ponceau’s (1760–1844) decision to reedit and republish John Eliot’s (ca. 1604–1690) The Indian Grammar Begun is an important but underrecognized event. Eliot’s grammar was first published in 1666, but by the early 1800s had… read more

Amsler, Mark E. 2013 Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics By Margaret Thomas Historiographia Linguistica 40:1/2, pp. 294–297 | Review

Amsler, Mark E. 2010 Premodern Letters and Textual Consciousness: From the Pre-Socratics to the First Grammatical Treatise Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 279–319 | Article

Modern linguistics textbooks devote little, if any, space to writing systems. Shifting our attention from naming precursors or proto-theories to reading earlier language study and linguistics as theorizing and description, the present paper explores ancient and early medieval concepts of the… read more

Amsler, Mark E. 2002 Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century. by John E. Joseph, Nigel Love & Talbot J. Taylor Historiographia Linguistica 29:3, pp. 442–447 | Review

Amsler, Mark E. 1993 History of linguistics: ‘Standard Latin’, and Pedagogy Historiographia Linguistica 20:1, pp. 49–66 | Article

Recent work in the history of early medieval linguistics has challenged a number of assumptions about the representation of Latin and language usage during the period. Given the way Latin is often positioned as a standard for literacy and schooling, these revisions of early medieval linguistics… read more

Amsler, Mark E. 1993 History of Linguistics,: ‘standard Latin’, and pedagogy History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages, Law, Vivien A. (ed.), pp. 49–66 | Article

Amsler, Mark E. 1990 Commentary and Metalanguage in Early Medieval Latin Grammar History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 175–188 | Chapter