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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English

By: Emanuel J. Drechsel

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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English

By: Emanuel J. Drechsel

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics

Resources and Inspirations

By: Emanuel J. Drechsel

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Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics

Resources and Inspirations

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Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), an early pioneer in the philosophy of language, linguistic and educational theory, was not only one of the first European linguists to identify human language as a rule-governed system –the foundational premise of Noam Chomsky's generative theory – or to reflect on cognition in studying language; he was also a major scholar of Indigenous American languages. However, with his famous naturalist brother Alexander 'stealing the show,' Humboldt's contributions to linguistics and anthropology have remained understudied in English until today. Drechsel's unique book addresses this gap by uncovering and examining Humboldt's influences on diverse issues in nineteenth-century American linguistics, from Peter S. Duponceau to the early Boasians, including Edward Sapir. This study shows how Humboldt's ideas have shaped the field in multiple ways. Shining a light on one of the early innovators of linguistics, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the field.

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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English

By: Emanuel J. Drechsel

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Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics

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By: Emanuel J. Drechsel

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Resources and Inspirations

By: Emanuel J. Drechsel

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), an early pioneer in the philosophy of language, linguistic and educational theory, was not only one of the ﬁrst European linguists to identify human language as a rule-governed system -the foundational premise of Noam Chomsky's generative theory - or to reﬂect on cognition in studying language; he was also a major scholar of Indigenous American languages. However, with his famous naturalist brother Alexander 'stealing the show,' Humboldt's contributions to linguistics and anthropology have remained understudied in English until today. Drechsel's unique book addresses this gap by uncovering and examining Humboldt's inﬂuences on diverse issues in nineteenth-century American linguistics, from Peter S. Duponceau to the early Boasians, including Edward Sapir. This study shows how Humboldt's ideas have shaped the ﬁeld in multiple ways. Shining a light on one of the early innovators of linguistics, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the ﬁeld.

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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics

Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics

Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics

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