Toon Van Hal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Toon Van Hal is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0304-0720
Title
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.
2021 On the ‘affinities of Oriental languages’: Wilhelm von Humboldt and his British connections Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia, Zwartjes, Otto and Paolo De Troia (eds.), pp. 265–288 | Chapter
2019 Traditions, innovations, and connections in writing the history of linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 46:3, pp. 131–147 | Review article
2017 The Role of Vernacular Proverbs in Latin Language Acquisition, c. 1200–1600: An exploratory study Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600, Luhtala, Anneli and Mark E. Amsler (eds.), pp. 278–305 | Article
This paper examines the continuities and discontinuities in language teaching between the Middle Ages and the early modern era by drawing attention to the role of bilingual Latin-vernacular proverb collections in premodern education, a subject that has hitherto been neglected in the… read more
2016 Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 43:1/2, pp. 245–250 | Review
2016 Protestant Pioneers in Sanskrit Studies in the Early 18th Century: An overlooked chapter in South Indian missionary linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 43:1/2, pp. 99–144 | Article
Sanskrit has played a notable role in the history of the language sciences. Its intensive study at the turn of the 19th century went hand in hand with the institutionalization of linguistics as an independent academic discipline. This paper endeavours to trace the earliest Sanskrit studies… read more
2014 Morphologie du langage et typologie linguistique: La connexion ‘Schleicher — Saint-Pétersbourg’ History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011, Kasevich, Vadim, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot (eds.), pp. 87–102 | Article
The academy memoir Zur Morphologie der Sprache which August Schleicher published in 1859 in the Saint-Petersburg Academy collection proposes an innovating classification, on a morphological basis, of the languages of the world. The work is based on a theory of the formal structure of the word; the… read more
2013 Jac. van Ginneken onder vuur: Over eigentijdse en naoorlogse kritiek op de taalkundige J. J. A. van Ginneken S. J. (1877–1945). Von Gerrold van der Stroom: Over eigentijdse en naoorlogse kritiek op de taalkundige J.J.A. van Ginneken S.J. (1877–1945) Historiographia Linguistica 40:3, pp. 524–529 | Review
2011 The earliest stages of Persian-German language comparison History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 147–165 | Article
Renaissance Europe (re)discovered Persia and its language. Despite the supposed Semitic nature of Persian, some striking lexical similarities between this language and the Germanic languages became unmistakable to many Western scholars. Until the elaboration of comparative linguistics as an… read more
2010 À la recherche d’une grammaire perdue: Johann Ernst Hanxleden’s Grammatica Grandonica retrieved Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 445–457 | Miscellaneous
2009 Ontheven aan de tijd: Linguïstisch-historische studies voor Jan Noordegraaf bij zijn zestigste verjaardag. Ed. by Lo van Driel & Theo Janssen Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 438–442 | Review