William Cowan

List of John Benjamins publications for which William Cowan plays a role.

Titles

Source Book for Linguistics: Third revised edition

William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan

[Not in series, 89] 1999. xii, 250 pp.

Subjects Theoretical linguistics

New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984)

Edited by William Cowan, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner †

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 41] 1986. xiv, 627 pp.

Subjects History of linguistics

Source Book for Linguistics

William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan

[Not in series, 20] 1985. xxvi, 338 pp.

Subjects Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Cowan, William 2001 Passing through time: My career from Arabic to Algonquian Historiographia Linguistica 28:1/2, pp. 231–250 | Miscellaneous

Cowan, William 1999 First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences. Ed. by E. F. K. Koerner Historiographia Linguistica 26:3, pp. 436–440 | Review

Cowan, William 1990 Bloomfield, Structuralism, and the Algonquian Languages 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. 833 ff. | Chapter

Cowan, William 1984 Vers L'histoire De L'obviation En Montagnais Diachronica 1:2, pp. 193–202 | Article

SUMMARY In Montagnais, the obviative marker for singular animate nouns is -a; the obviative marker for singular inanimate nouns is -nu. However, in simple possessive constructions, an inanimate noun does not have the expected inanimate -nu, and in double possessive constructions, an animate noun… read more

Cowan, William 1983 Arab Linguistics: An Introductory Classical Text with Translation and Notes. Edited by Michael George Carter Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2, pp. 120–124 | Review

Cowan, William 1982 Arabic Grammatical Terminology in Pedro de Alcalá The History of Linguistics in the Near East, Versteegh, Kees, E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 121 ff. | Article

Cowan, William 1981 Arabic Grammatical Terminology in Pedro De Alcalá Historiographia Linguistica 8:2/3, pp. 357–363 | Article

In 1505 a Spanish priest, Pedro de Alcalá, published a short descriptive grammar and a dictionary of the Arabic dialect spoken in Granada. Although most of the grammatical concepts and terminology he used in this description were those of Latin grammar, he did use some concepts and terms taken… read more