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De Gruyter eBook-Paket Sprachwissenschaft
Description:
How did German linguists think about Latin, the international lingua franca in the 17th and 18th centuries, and about the two other ancient languages, Greek and Hebrew? Using wide-ranging sources and evidence, this study presents contemporary writings about genealogy, typology, borrowing, purism, and the use and teaching of foreign languages. The book fills a major gap in research on German linguistic and cultural history