Colonialism and grammatical representation; John Gilchrist and the analysis of the "Hindustani" language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.9781405161329 Colonialism and grammatical representation; John Gilchrist John Gilchrist may refer to:
Steadman-Jones, Richard. Blackwell Publishing 2007 280 pages $39.95 Paperback Publications of the Philological Society A society in Great Britain dedicated to the study of language. See Philology. External links
PK1981 Steadman-Jones (English, U. of Sheffield, UK) presents a contextual and textual analysis of the three-volume dictionary and grammar of the Indian language "Hindoostanee" finished by British colonial surgeon John Gilchrist towards the beginning of the 19th century. His goal is to demonstrate for the reader the way that Gilchrist's grammatical work combined technical analytical problems with issues of political representation in a fashion that privileged neither dimension of the work. He accomplishes this goal by examining Gilchrist's personal circumstances; the epistemology epistemology (ĭpĭs'təmŏl`əjē) [Gr.,=knowledge or science], the branch of philosophy that is directed toward theories of the sources, nature, and limits of knowledge. Since the 17th cent. of late 18th century linguistic enquiry; and Gilchrist's treatment of nominal and verbal morphology morphology In biology, the study of the size, shape, and structure of organisms in relation to some principle or generalization. Whereas anatomy describes the structure of organisms, morphology explains the shapes and arrangement of parts of organisms in terms of such , dialogue as a medium for language learning, and etymological et·y·mo·log·i·cal also et·y·mo·log·ic adj. Of or relating to etymology or based on the principles of etymology. et analysis. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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