Floris Solleveld
List of John Benjamins publications in which Floris Solleveld is involved.
Articles
2020 Expanding the comparative view: Humboldt’s Über die Kawi-Sprache and its language materials Historiographia Linguistica 47:1, pp. 49–78 | Article
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java can be seen as the first comparative grammar of non-Indo-European languages. While Humboldt’s practice of collecting and re-assembling linguistic information has been documented extensively in the Berlin Academy edition of his… read more
2020 Klaproth, Balbi and the language atlas History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie and Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.), pp. 81–100 | Chapter
Julius Klaproth’s Asia Polyglotta (1823) and Adriano Balbi’s Atlas ethnographique du Globe (1826a, 1826b) were the first examples of so-called ‘language atlases’. This article investigates how these atlases presented language as an object of study, and how the study of language intersected with… read more