Marcus Tomalin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcus Tomalin is involved.

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“And he knew our language”: Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast

Marcus Tomalin

This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 116] 2011. xi, 203 pp. | open access

Articles (5) | Order by:

Tomalin, Marcus 2010 Missionary Linguistics / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography. Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Mérida, Yucatán, 14–17 March 2007. Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Ramón Arzápalo Marín and Thomas C. Smith-Stark Historiographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 238–246 | Review

Tomalin, Marcus 2010 Migrating propositions and the evolution of Generative Grammar Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 315–336 | Article

This chapter considers the way in which linguistic theories develop (or ‘evolve’). Taking the ‘Research Program’ model of scientific theory development as a starting point, the discussion focuses on the intricate relationship between Generative Grammar and Relational Grammar during the period… read more

Tomalin, Marcus 2008 Reassessing Nineteenth-Century Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast Historiographia Linguistica 35:1/2, pp. 83–120 | Article

This article reconsiders various aspects of missionary linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast in the late 19th century. In particular, it explores the complex relationship between Alfred Hall’s (1853–1918) A Grammar of the Kwagiutl Language (1888) and Charles Harrison’s (d.1926) Haida Grammar… read more

Tomalin, Marcus 2006 ‘…to this rule there are many exceptions’: Robert Maunsell and the Grammar of Maori Historiographia Linguistica 33:3, pp. 303–334 | Article

This article assesses Robert Maunsell’s (1810–1894) Grammar of the New Zealand Language (1842). In particular, it is shown that, contrary to established belief, Maunsell’s Grammar was not exclusively based upon European or Hebrew grammatical models, but rather that it constituted an intriguing… read more

Tomalin, Marcus 2004 Leonard Bloomfield: Linguistics and mathematics Historiographia Linguistica 31:1, pp. 105–136 | Article

This paper considers various aspects of Leonard Bloomfield’s (1887–1949) interest in contemporaneous mathematics. Specifically, some of the sources from which he obtained his mathematical knowledge are discussed, as are his own proposals for a linguistics-based solution to the foundations crisis… read more