Pierre Swiggers

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Pierre Swiggers plays a role.

Journal

Historiographia Linguistica (HL)

Edited by Jean-Michel Fortis and Otto Zwartjes

ISSN 0302-5160 | E-ISSN 1569-9781

Titles

Études offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume I. Études de linguistique générale et romane: l’approche pronominale et méthodes quantitatives

Sous la direction de Nicole Delbecque et Pierre Swiggers

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 95/96 (1992) ca. 205 pp.

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism

Études offertes à Karel van den EyndeÉtudes offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive

Sous la direction de Nicole Delbecque et Pierre Swiggers

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 97/98 (1992) ca. 276 pp.

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism

Articles

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Swiggers, Pierre 2023 L’architecture des études de linguistique romane au XVI e siècle: Le regard d’Eugenio Coseriu Historiographia Linguistica 50:1, pp. 94–116 | Review article

Swiggers, Pierre, Werner Thomas and Toon Van Hal 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

Swiggers, Pierre 2020 Bibliographie linguistique de l’année 2016 et complément des années précédentes / Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2016 and supplement for previous years Historiographia Linguistica 47:1, pp. 115–131 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 2020 Review of Benveniste, Coquet & Fenoglio (2019): Last Lectures. Collège de France 1968 and 1969 Historiographia Linguistica 47:2/3, pp. 347–359 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre, Alfons Wouters and Valerie Van Elst 2020 Greek grammatical learning papyri: Typology, function and formats 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. 173–188 | Chapter

This contribution offers an attempt at defining the genre of grammatical school papyri, on the basis of a corpus of some 65 relevant papyri, roughly ranging from the 1st to the 8th century AD. After a brief overview of the heuristic and methodological state of the art, we offer a content-based… read more

Szoc, Sara et Pierre Swiggers 2019 La grammaire italienne de Lodewijk Meijer (1672) : Anatomie d’une grammaire didactique “raisonnée” Historiographia Linguistica 46:1/2, pp. 1–47 | Article

En 1672 parut à Amsterdam, chez Abraham Wolfgang (1634–1694), une grammaire de l’italien rédigée en néerlandais. L’auteur de cette grammaire, publiée anonymement, peut être identifié comme Lodewijk Meijer (1629–1681). L’ouvrage, intitulé Italiaansche Spraakkonst, se caractérise par une… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 2018 Editée par/Edited by Anne Aarssen, Ekaterina Bobyleva, René Genis, Sijmen Tol and Eline van der Veken, with the assistance of Femmy Admiraal, Nadia van den Berg and Nozomi Cho. Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2015 and supplement for previous years Historiographia Linguistica 45:3, pp. 403–414 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 2017 Nicolaus Clenardus’ Institutiones grammaticae Latinae (1538): Contents and context Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600, Luhtala, Anneli and Mark E. Amsler (eds.), pp. 430–458 | Article

In 1538 the Flemish humanist language scholar Nicolaus Clenardus (1493–1542) published a grammar of Latin in Braga (Portugal), the Institutiones grammaticae Latinae. The grammar, the fruit of his public teaching in Braga, was the third in a series of grammars written by Clenardus: while active in… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 2016 Voices from the field: Edward Sapir’s study of Takelma History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014, Assunção, Carlos, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler (eds.), pp. 177–190 | Article

Edward Sapir’s grammar of Takelma remains a model of linguistic description and insight into the deeper structure of a language. Together with his Takelma Texts it is our principal source of information on this extinct language, once spoken in southwestern Oregon. Sapir did his fieldwork on Takelma… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 2016 Linguistic Bibliography for the Years 2012, 2013, 2014 and Supplements for Previous Years Historiographia Linguistica 43:3, pp. 412–421 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre et Toon Van Hal 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

Denecker, Tim, Gert Partoens, Pierre Swiggers and Toon Van Hal 2012 Language Origins, Language Diversity, and Language Classification in Early Christian Latin Authors: Outline of a research project in progress (2011–2015) Historiographia Linguistica 39:2/3, pp. 429–439 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre and Alfons Wouters 2011 Grammatical doxography in Antiquity: The (hi-)stories of the parts-of-speech system 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. 69–91 | Article

The origin and development of the parts-of-speech system was the subject of retrospective accounts written by ancient Greek and Latin authors interested in this evolutionary process of grammaticography. These accounts, containing a survey of doctrines and viewpoints concerning the number and nature… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 2010 Grammar and language in Syntactic Structures: Transformational progress and structuralist ‘reflux’ Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 215–234 | Article

In his review of Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (1957), R.B. Lees praised the work as a pioneering effort in constructing a truly scientific theory of language. Very soon, Chomsky’s 1957 book was regarded as inaugurating the ‘generative revolution’ in linguistics. The present study focuses on the… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 2009 David Zeisberger’s Description of Delaware Morphology (1827) Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 325–344 | Article

This article proposes an analysis of the linguistic work of the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger (1721–1808), and more particularly of his grammar of the Delaware language (= [Lenni-]Lenape), which was published in 1827 in an English translation by Peter S. Du Ponceau (1760–1844), on the basis… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 2007 "Bones and ribs": The treatment of morphosyntax in John's Eliot's grammar of the Massachusett language (1666) Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III: Morphology and Syntax, Zwartjes, Otto, Gregory James and Emilio Ridruejo (eds.), pp. 41 ff. | Article

Swiggers, Pierre and Alfons Wouters 2007 On the origins of the participle as a part of speech History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 50–66 | Article

The participle is one of the eight parts of speech in ancient Greek grammaticography. In spite of its constant inclusion in grammar manuals of the ancient Greek tradition, its status is problematic given that the participle is defined not in terms of proper and specific characteristics, but… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 2004 Hittite -za and Reflexivity Marking: Some Remarks Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg, Baldi, Philip and Pietro U. Dini (eds.), pp. 203 ff. | Chapter

Lenoble, Muriel, Pierre Swiggers et Alfons Wouters 2003 La structure des artes grammaticae latine: L’exemple du pronom History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14–19 September 1999, Fontenay-St.Cloud, Auroux, Sylvian (ed.), pp. 1 ff. | Article

Desmet, Piet, Peter Lauwers and Pierre Swiggers 1999 Dialectology, Philology and Linguistics in the Romance Field: Methodological Developments and Interactions Variation in (Sub)standard language, Belemans, Rob and Reinhild Vandekerckhove (eds.), pp. 177–203 | Article

Abstract. This contribution offers a historical survey of the views adopted by Romance scholars in methodological discussions tied up with dialectological work conducted between 1875 and 1925. Following an initial phase in which dialectology was strongly linked to folklore-based work and was mainly… read more

Seldeslachts, Herman and Pierre Swiggers 1999 "Ich erwarte mit Ungeduld das absolute Ende meiner elenden Existenz...": The 'image' of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay in his correspondence with Hugo Schuchardt History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 277 ff. | Chapter

Swiggers, Pierre and Alfons Wouters 1999 A Round-Table Discussion History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 3 ff. | Chapter

Clercq, Jan de and Pierre Swiggers 1992 The Hibernian Connection: Irish Grammaticography in Louvain Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 85 ff. | Article

Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers 1992 Karel Van Den Eynde: Un Profil De Linguiste Études offertes à Karel van den EyndeÉtudes offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive, Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers (dir.), pp. iv–xv | Article

Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers 1992 Avant-propos Études offertes à Karel van den EyndeÉtudes offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive, Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers (dir.), pp. i–iii | Article

Swiggers, Pierre 1992 Linguistic theory and epistemology of linguistics Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 573 ff. | Article

Swiggers, Pierre 1992 Louvain nә mi˕ns: Taxonomy as the Foundation of Syntactic Typology Études offertes à Karel van den EyndeÉtudes offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive, Delbecque, Nicole et Pierre Swiggers (dir.), pp. 231–242 | Article

Swiggers, Pierre 1991 Variation, invariance, hierarchy, and integration as grammatical parameters New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, Waugh, Linda R. and Stephen Rudy (eds.), pp. 185–220 | Article

Swiggers, Pierre 1990 Comparatismo e grammatica comparata: Tipologia linguistica e forma grammaticale Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986, De Mauro, Tullio † and Lia Formigari (eds.), pp. 281 ff. | Article

Swiggers, Pierre et Willy van Hoecke 1990 Michel Bréal et le changement linguistique History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 667 ff. | Chapter

Swiggers, Pierre 1989 Carlo Tagliavini (1903–1982): Un encyclopédiste de la linguistique et de l’histoire des sciences du langage Historiographia Linguistica 16:3, pp. 407–413 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre 1988 Review of Melena (1977/1980): Fundamentos de teoría sintáctica ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 79/80, pp. 146–149 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1988 Possessives with the Predicative Function in Official Aramaic Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman, Arbeitman, Yoël L. (ed.), pp. 449–461 | Article

Swiggers, Pierre 1988 Review of Stockwell & Melena (1980/1977): Fundamentos de teoría sintáctica Lingvisticæ Investigationes 12:1, pp. 181–184 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1988 Review of GAZDAR, FRANZ, OSBORNE & EVANS (1987/1988): Natural Laaguage Processing in the 1980s. A Bibliography. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 81/82, pp. 168–170 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1988 Review of GEERTS, HAESERYN, DE ROOIJ & VAN DEN TOORN (1984): Algemene Nederlandse spraakkunst ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 79/80, pp. 150–155 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1988 Review of Gyarmathi & Hanzeli (1983): Grammatical Proof of the Affinity of the Hungarian Language with Languages of Fennic Origin Lingvisticæ Investigationes 12:1, pp. 184–188 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1988 Grammatical categories and human conceptualization: Aristotle and the modistae Topics in Cognitive Linguistics, Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida (ed.), pp. 621 ff. | Article

Swiggers, Pierre 1987 Antoine Meillet et la méthode en linguistique Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 595 ff. | Article

Swiggers, Pierre et Karel van den Eynde 1987 Problemes de L’Analyse Morphologique des verbes Francais. Introduction ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 77/78, pp. 1–12 | Article

Swiggers, Pierre et Karel van den Eynde 1987 La Morphologie Du Verbe Francais ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 77/78, pp. 151–251 | Article

Swiggers, Pierre 1986 Louis Théophile Lefort (1879–1959) Historiographia Linguistica 13:1, pp. 131–135 | Obituary

Swiggers, Pierre 1986 Review of Katz (1985): The Philosophy of Linguistics Lingvisticæ Investigationes 10:1, pp. 190–197 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1985 La Grammaire Française De Regnier-Desmarais: Notes / Notizen Historiographia Linguistica 12:1/2, pp. 261–271 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre 1985 Review of CALLAMAND (1985): Intercodes. Méthode de français 1 : Guide pédagogique; Méthode de français 2 : Guide pédagogique ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 70, pp. 66–67 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1985 Review of MONNERIE, CALLAMAND & TALARICO (1984): Intercodes. Méthode de français 1 : Livre de textes et d'exercices. Annexes et précis grammatical. Méthode de français 2 : Livre de textes et d'exercices. Annexes et dictionnaire des verbes ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 70, pp. 64–66 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1985 Review of Eliasson (): Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Phonology ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 70, pp. 70–74 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1985 Review of JACHNOW, HARTENSTEIN & JACHNOW (): Handbuch des Russisten. Sprachwissenschaft und angrenzende Disziplinen ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 70, pp. 68–70 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1984 Critique de Gipper & Schwarz (1980-1981): Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil I : Schrifttum zur Sprachin-haltsforschung in alphabetischer Folge nach Verfassern mit Besprechungen und Inhaltshinweisen (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften). Lieferung 23-25 ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 63, pp. 99–100 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1984 Remarques Épistémologiques Sur La Grammaire Générative Universelle Lingvisticæ Investigationes 8:2, pp. 429–435 | Discussion

Swiggers, Pierre 1984 Review of Larochette (1980): Le langage et la réalité II: L'emploi des formes de Vindicatif en français: The Case of the French Verb Studies in Language 8:3, pp. 415–438 | Review

Mertens, F.J. et Pierre Swiggers 1983 LA Grammaire générate et raisonnée De Port-Royal: Notes bibliographiques Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 357–362 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre 1983 Review of Botha (1981): The Conduct of Linguistic Inquiry. A Systematic Introduction to the Methodology of Generative Grammar ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 62, pp. 84–87 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1983 Critique de HYMES & FOUGHT (1981): American Structuralism ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 62, pp. 78–83 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1983 Abriß der Geschichte der Linguistik. By T(amara) A(leksandrovna) Amirova B(oris) A(ndreevič) Ol’xovikov, and Ju(rij) V(ladimirovič) Roz-destvenskij Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2, pp. 97–103 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1983 Un coup d’oeil sur l’histoire de la linguistique: Jozef Vercoullie (1922) Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2, pp. 159–163 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre 1982 ‘Portraits of Linguists’ Anno 1927 Historiographia Linguistica 9:1/2, pp. 175–178 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre 1982 Frege on Reference in Quotation Lingvisticæ Investigationes 6:1, pp. 201–204 | Discussion

Pierre Swiggers: Frege on reference in quotation. A discussion about the correct interpretation of an "enigmatic" statement made by Frege. read more

Swiggers, Pierre 1981 Review of GIPPER, Helmut & Hans SCHWARZ, eds (1974-1978) Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung Teil I: Lieferung 17-22 ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 54, pp. 91–94 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1981 Western Histories of Linguistic Thought: Additional Bibliography Language Problems and Language Planning 5:3, pp. 279–290 | Article

SAMENVATTING Westerse geschiedenissen van de taalkunde: aanvullende bibliografie Zoals aangestipt in mijn overzicht van het recente onderzoek over de geschiedenis van de taalkunde (Swiggers 1980), heeft de geschiedschrijving van de linguïstiek een zeer lange voorgeschiedenis. Een interessante ken… read more

Swiggers, Pierre 1981 Review of Buyssens (1980): Epistémologie de la phonématique Studies in Language 5:2, pp. 287–293 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1980 Review of Rey (1976): Théories du signe et du sens. Lectures Lingvisticæ Investigationes 4:2, pp. 420–430 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre 1980 Durand on Port-Royal Studies in Language 4:1, pp. 125–130 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre 1979 L'Encyclopedie Et La Linguistique: Au XVIIIe Siecle Lingvisticæ Investigationes 3:2, pp. 383–396 | Discussion

Swiggers, Pierre 1979 Joannes Theodorus Beelen (1807–84) Historiographia Linguistica 6:1, pp. 125–128 | Miscellaneous

Swiggers, Pierre 1979 Review of Stengel & Niederehe (1976): Chronologisches Verzeichnis französischer Grammatiken vom Ende des 14. bis zum Ausgange des 18. Jahrhunderts nebst Angabe der bisher ermittelten Fundorte derselben Lingvisticæ Investigationes 3:1, pp. 192–204 | Review

Swiggers, Pierre Review of Aarssen, Genis & van der Veken (2018–2020) Historiographia Linguistica: Online-First Articles | Review