James McElvenny
Australian linguist and historian
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James McElvenny's Degrees
- Masters History University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James McElvenny is an Australian linguist and intellectual historian based in Germany, known for his work on the history modern linguistics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has directed research into the theoretical underpinnings of formal linguistics, and has published extensively on the history of typology and language documentation, in particular as it relates to the tradition of linguistic scholarship established by Wilhelm von Humboldt. In this connection, he has worked extensively on Georg von der Gabelentz. He has also published on early twentieth-century language study in Britain and its connections to philosophy of language in analytic philosophy, with a particular focus on C. K. Ogden and his milieu.
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