James McElvenny
List of John Benjamins publications in which James McElvenny is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0302-5160 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9781
2025 Linguistic description between Kleinstaaterei and the Word of God: A case study of the 1838 Lutheran mission to South Australia Historiographia Linguistica: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper presents a case study of the linguistic work conducted by the German Lutheran missionaries Christian G. Teichelmann (1807–1888) and Clamor W. Schürmann (1815–1893) in producing grammars and dictionaries of Indigenous languages of South Australia, and the so-called ‘Adelaide School’ of… read more
2018 August Schleicher and Materialism in 19th-Century Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2, pp. 133–152 | Article
Towards the end of his career, August Schleicher (1821–1868), the great consolidator of Indo-European historical-comparative linguistics in the mid-19th century, famously drew explicit parallels between linguistics and the new evolutionary theory of Darwinism. Based on this, it has become… read more
2015 The application of C.K. Ogden’s semiotics in Basic English Language Problems and Language Planning 39:2, pp. 187–204 | Article
Although a relatively minor project in terms of its impact on the broader international language movement, Basic English is interesting for the elaborate semiotic theory that underlies it. The creator of Basic English, Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957), is today remembered chiefly as co-author of The… read more