How did German linguists think about Latin, the international lingua franca in the 17th and 18th centuries, and about Greek and Hebrew? Using wide-ranging sources and evidence, this study presents contemporary writings about genealogy, typology, borrowing, purism, and the use and teaching of foreign languages.
The series Studia Linguistica Germanica, founded in 1968 by Ludwig Erich Schmitt and Stefan Sonderegger, is one of the standard publication organs for German Linguistics. The series aims to cover the whole spectrum of the subject, while concentrating on questions relating to language history and the history of linguistic ideas. It includes works on the historical grammar and semantics of German, on the relationship of language and culture, on the history of language theory, on dialectology, on lexicology / lexicography, text linguistics and on the location of German in the European linguistic context.
