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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: First Language
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In article <123662334.198592174@inform-bbs.dk> OSA@inform-bbs.dk
(OleStig Andersen) writes:

>Does anybody 'out there' know more about Rudbeck and Grotius and their
>contemporaries (their linguistic ideas, that is) and the intellectual milieu
>their linguistic research and conclusions were conducted in?

I would suggest Holger Pedersen's _Linguistics in the 19th Century_ (the
original is Danish, _Det sprogvidenskap..._ or similar).  The usual title of
the English translation is _The Discovery of Language_, with the Danish title
translated as the subtitle.

Pedersen covers much more than the 19th century.

You might also check out Arens' works on the history of linguistics.  I believe
that he also writes in Danish as well as English.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
