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John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist - A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description (Hardcover, New)
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John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist - A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology
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The year 1530 saw the publication in London of one of the most
remarkable books of the Renaissance: Lesclarcissement de la langue
francoyse. The author of this vast work of over 1,000 pages was
John Palsgrave, graduate of Cambridge, Paris, and Oxford, priest
and chaplain to Henry VIII, and tutor to the King's sister. His
book is the first dictionary of two neighbouring vernaculars,
English and French, and simultaneously the first contrastive
grammar of the two languages. It reveals him as a pioneering and
exceptional linguist with a sharply observant and analytical mind,
who goes far beyond the traditional application of Latin
grammar-writing to two living languages. The book is also
remarkable for the liveliness with which Palsgrave discusses and
illustrates the social aspects of language use, dialectal
variation, and the vigour of colloquial idiom. In this uniquely
detailed study Stein sets the author and his book in their wider
sociohistorical context and discusses Palsgrave's syntactic,
semantic, and pragmatic analyses, some of which anticipate the
findings of modern linguistics by over 400 years.
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