Erich Poppe

List of John Benjamins publications for which Erich Poppe plays a role.

Titles

Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time

Edited by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213] 2000. xxxii, 323 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax

Studies in Brythonic Word Order

Edited by James Fife and Erich Poppe

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 83] 1991. x, 360 pp.

Subjects Celtic languages | Historical linguistics

Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins

Edited by Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 68] 1990. xxiv, 470 pp.

Subjects Celtic languages | Historical linguistics

Articles

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Poppe, Erich 2016 Caide Máthair Bréithre “What is the Mother of a Word”: Thinking about words in Medieval Ireland Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales, Hayden, Deborah and Paul Russell (eds.), pp. 65–84 | Article

This chapter explores some of the ways in which medieval Irish scholars thought about the linguistic concept of the word. Starting points are (i) the observation that they have been credited with the implementation of forms of word division in scribal practice and (ii) the question of whether they… read more

Poppe, Erich 2000 Constitutent Order in Middle Welsh: The Stability of the Pragmatic Principle Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, Sornicola, Rosanna, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.), pp. 41 ff. | Chapter

Poppe, Erich 1999 Latinate terminology in 'Auraicept na nÉces' History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 191 ff. | Chapter

Fife, James and Erich Poppe 1991 Introduction — Word order in Brythonic Studies in Brythonic Word Order, Fife, James and Erich Poppe (eds.), pp. vii ff. | Miscellaneous

Poppe, Erich 1991 Word order in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys: Notes on the pragmatics of constituent-ordering in MW narrative prose Studies in Brythonic Word Order, Fife, James and Erich Poppe (eds.), pp. 155 ff. | Article

Poppe, Erich 1991 Latin grammatical categories in the vernacular: The case of declension in welsh Historiographia Linguistica 18:2/3, pp. 269–280 | Article

The grammatical category ‘declension’ cannot be applied to Welsh substantive nouns since they have one form only for the singular and the plural respectively. But some Welsh grammarians of the 16th and 17th centuries tried to use this category to classify substantive nouns by proposing new… read more

Poppe, Erich 1990 Word-order patterns in Breudwyt Ronabwy Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins, Ball, Martin J., James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland (eds.), pp. 445 ff. | Article

Poppe, Erich 1983 Fachsprache und Grammatikographie im 18. Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Der Terminologielehre Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 209–239 | Article

Summary The understanding and usage of linguistic terminology in 18th-century grammatical writings on the German language cannot be separated from concepts of technical languages as developed in contemporary logic. No list of existing linguistic terminology during the period will be given here,… read more