Language & History 66-2. 2023. The Crosslinguistic Application of Grammatical Categories and Its Mechanisms from Antiquity to Modern Times,
ed. by Raf van Rooy. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor and Francis. Online ISSN: 1759-7544
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Table of contents
Introduction: the crosslinguistic application of grammatical categories in the history of linguistics
Raf Van Rooy
The French aorist in sixteenth-century grammar, or how to make the best of a bad Greek concept
Raf Van Rooy
The curious case(s) of the Hebrew article: on a conflated grammatical category and how it emerges from sixteenth-century student notes
Maxime Maleux
Grammatical category versus comparative concept in missionary grammars of Tamil (16th-18th centuries): the description of the relative clause
Cristina Muru
The notion of ‘adjective’ in the history of Pamean language descriptions
Jennifer Brunner & Bernhard Hurch
The development of the concept of ʽevidentialityʼ and its exogenous application to European languages
Gerda Haßler
The journey of the middle voice: from antiquity to linguistic typology
Guglielmo Inglese