Essay on the Principles of Translation (3rd rev. ed., 1813)

Essay on the Principles of Translation (3rd rev. ed., 1813)
Author: Alexander Fraser Tytler
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 525
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027286558

This is a reprint of the third edition of Tytler’s Principles of Translation , originally published in 1791, and this edition was published in 1813. The ideas of Tytler can give inspiration to modern TS scholars, particularly his open-mindedness on quality assessment and his ideas on linguistic and cultural aspects in translations, which are illustrated with many examples. In the Introduction, Jeffrey Huntsman sets Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee and his ideas in a historical context. As the original preface states: “It will serve to demonstrate, that the Art of Translation is of more dignity and importance than has generally been imagined.” (p. ix)

Essay on the Principles of Translation

Essay on the Principles of Translation
Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902720974X

This is a reprint of the third edition of Tytler s "Principles of Translation," originally published in 1791, and this edition was published in 1813. The ideas of Tytler can give inspiration to modern TS scholars, particularly his open-mindedness on quality assessment and his ideas on linguistic and cultural aspects in translations, which are illustrated with many examples.In the Introduction, Jeffrey Huntsman sets Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee and his ideas in a historical context.As the original preface states: It will serve to demonstrate, that the Art of Translation is of more dignity and importance than has generally been imagined. (p. ix)

Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages, Shewing the Original Identity of Their Grammatical Structure

Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages, Shewing the Original Identity of Their Grammatical Structure
Author: Franz Bopp
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027208743

The publication in 1816 of Bopp s "Uber das Conjugationssystem" can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The "Analytical Comparison" (1820) represents not merely a translation into English, as has been claimed in the literature, but a significant advance in theoretical clarity and methodological soundness. This reprint is accompanied by a bio-bibliographical account of Bopp by J. D. Guigniaut, an introduction to "Analytical Comparison" by Friedrich Techmer, and a letter to Bopp by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Furthermore, the editor, E. F. K. Koerner, has added a Foreword, select bibliography, and index.

A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue

A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
Author: Rasmus Rask
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027286566

This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this important 19th-century scholar who, together with Bopp and Grimm, has justly been ranked among the founding fathers of the comparative-historical study of Indo-European languages. Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist, but also with language as a system based on a notion of structure comprised of three key ideas: the idea of wholeness, the idea of transformation (derivation and composition), and the idea of self-regulation. He formulated theoretical and practical premises for the composition of grammars, and in this he was far ahead of his time and in closer proximity to the linguistic concerns and problems of our era. From both theoretical and pedagogical points of view, Rask’s grammar of Icelandic remains a most remarkable work.

Guide to Reprints

Guide to Reprints
Author: K G Saur Publishing
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783598238994

The established reference work Guide to Reprints has been radically reworked for this edition. Bibliographical data was substantially increased where information was obtainable. In addition, the user-friendliness of Guide to Reprints was raised to the high level of other K.G. Saur directories through author-title cross-references, a subject volume, a person index and a publisher index. In this edition, the directory lists more than 60,000 titles from more than 350 publishers.

New Approaches to Coleridge

New Approaches to Coleridge
Author: Donald Sultana
Publisher: London : Vision ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1981
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN:

Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology

Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology
Author: Alec L. Panchen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1992-06-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521315784

Historically, naturalists who proposed theories of evolution, including Darwin and Wallace, did so in order to explain the apparent relationship of natural classification. This book begins by exploring the intimate historical relationship between patterns of classification and patterns of phylogeny. However, it is a circular argument to use the data for classification. Alec Panchen presents other evidence for evolution in the form of a historically based but rigorously logical argument. This is followed by a history of methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction including current mathematical and molecular techniques. The author makes the important claim that if the hierarchical pattern of classification is a real phenomenon, then biology is unique as a science in making taxonomic statements. This conclusion is reached by way of historical reviews of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of science as applied to biology. The book is addressed to biologists, particularly taxonomists, concerned with the history and philosophy of their subject, and to philosophers of science concerned with biology. It is also an important source book on methods of classification and the logic of evolutionary theory for students, professional biologists, and paleontologists.