Paul B. Salmon

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul B. Salmon is involved.

Articles

Salmon, Paul B. 1998 Translator's Introduction Language and its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp, Verburg, Pieter A., pp. xxi–xxix | Introduction

Salmon, Paul B. 1989 Also Ran: Some rivals of Herder in the Berlin Academy’s 1770 essay competition on the Origin of Language Historiographia Linguistica 16:1/2, pp. 25–48 | Article

Johann Gottfried Herder’s (1744–1803) Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache was published in 1772 after winning a prize competition instituted by the Berlin Academy of Sciences for an essay to determine whether or how man, left to his own devices, could devise language for himself. The work… read more

Salmon, Paul B. 1974 The Beginnings of Morphology: Linguistic Botanizing in the 18th Century Historiographia Linguistica 1:3, pp. 313–339 | Article

By providing an assured basis in morphology for subsequent phonological comparison Sir William Jones’s celebrated remarks about the resemblance and relationship between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin marked a turning point in the study of language. Some scholars anticipated his conclusions, but their… read more