Robert Van Rooy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1312930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Van Rooy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Rooy |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ROOY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3739-8465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Presentation of DaLeT, Database of the Leuven Trilingue
status: Published
Letters at trial: The Lucianic Judgment of the Vowels Gallicized (1654)
In the Second Sophistic (fl. ca. 50–230 CE), Greek writers developed a fascination with the literary dialect of classical Athens (5th century BCE). This Atticist zealotry was skillfully mocked in a satirical oration attributed to Lucian, in which the letter Sigma complains before a jury of vowels that his rival Tau has stolen various words from him. This pun-infested text, however short, posed problems for early modern translators. Notably, the r…
Introduction: The crosslinguistic application of grammatical categories in the history of linguistics
In the present introduction, I aim to provide some general context for the case studies in this special issue by introducing some recent developments in linguistics that inspired them (in particular the Haspelmath – Newmeyer debate) and by roughly sketching tendencies in the long history of linguistic description. I argue that the crosslinguistic application of linguistic categories is an old phenomenon, going back two millennia, that offers an e…
The French aorist in sixteenth-century grammar, or how to make the best of a bad Greek concept
In this paper, I argue that sixteenth-century French grammarians subtly adapted the Greek concept of aorist to their native language in order to fill a gap left by past tense descriptions in Latin grammar. In this French aorist concept, they amalgamated features today associated with tense and aspect. I start out by recalling the origin of the aorist concept in Greek antiquity, Byzantium, and the Italian Renaissance. Then I look at French grammar…
Acciarino, Damiano, project lead. Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism (Atra). Database
The Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism (ATRA) database offers a digital gateway to "the circulation of antiquarian learning in sixteenth-century Europe" by linking letters of scholars involved in the development and spread of "the antiquarian method" ("Home").The database is the result of a European Commission-funded MSCA-IF project that ran from 2017 until 2020 (grant no.745704).The platform was realized by a team of eight Italian scholars unde…
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World: The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, ac…
Ippolita Maria Sforza, Student and Patron of Greek in Milan
When ancient Greek heritage was rehabilitated in the Renaissance, its students were first and foremost aspiring humanists, and, almost as a rule, men. An early exception was Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445-88), the eldest daughter of the Duke of Milan, Francesco I Sforza. I argue that she not only studied the Greek language but also acted as a patron of Greek studies. Sforza's double role is confirmed by two Greek grammars dedicated to her and connec…
Early Modern Terminology for Dialect: Denigration, Purism, and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy
When the language-dialect dichotomy first emerged in the early modern period, several scholars devised terminological alternatives, particularly for the subordinate lower half of the dichotomy. This article examines a series of terminological alternatives in their social and linguistic contexts, considering terms from the Romance, Germanic, and Slavic linguistic zones. Our case studies suggest that there were two main reasons for coining neologis…
Graecia Belgica: Writing Ancient Greek in the early modern Low Countries
The early modern Low Countries formed a multilingual region where Latin and several vernaculars lived in symbiosis. It is often forgotten, however, that Ancient Greek was also cultivated among the cultural and intellectual elite, so intensely that a vast corpus of Greek texts was produced in this region. This article offers a first exploration of the reasons behind this cultural phenomenon. It starts with a general introduction, including a state…
Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg
An important source type for the underexplored history of early modern dialect studies is the academic dissertation, of which the Disputatio de causis dialectorum, speciatim Graecarum (1702) constitutes a unique yet unstudied specimen. Presented in Wittenberg by the Hellenist Christian Gottlieb Schwartz (1675–1751; praeses) and the further unknown Abraham Helm (respondens), it was the first dissertation to systematically treat the topic. Its appe…
Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context
A korajkor
An ablative for the Greeks: A grammar dispute in Tübingen (1585/1586) and its implications
In this article, I discuss a grammar dispute that took place between Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin and Martin Crusius in Tübingen in the winter of 1585/1586. I argue that their diverging views on the ablative case reflect a disagreement on two levels, in addition to their obvious personal rivalry: (1) the foundations of grammar, which Frischlin based on meaning rather than form, following J. C. Scaliger, and (2) contrasting attitudes toward the Gre…
A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (c.1495–1560) and the Study of Greek in Sixteenth-Century Louvain
status: Published
Plutarque dialectologue » La pseudo-autorité de Plutarque dans le discours sur les dialectes grecs à la Renaissance (ca. 1400–1670)
Plutarchus is de auteur van een omvangrijk oeuvre dat in de Renaissance (ca. 1400– 1670) zelfs nog uitgebreider werd geacht. Voor de humanisten bevatte het immers ook een biografie van Homerus, waarvan de eigenlijke auteur tot op heden onbekend is gebleven. Een onderdeel van deze pseudoplutarchische Vita Homeri (Leven van Homerus) ging zelfs een eigen leven leiden als een apart traktaat : m. n. de Περὶ τῶν παρὰ Ὁμήρῳ διαλέκτων (Over de dialecten …
Differing only in dialect', or How collocations can co-shape concepts
The Relevance of Evidentiality for Ancient Greek: Some Explorative Steps through Plato
The present paper aims at drawing renewed attention to the relevance of evidentiality for Ancient Greek by means of a number of case studies taken from two of Plato’s works (namely the Apologia Socratis and Crito ). First, I briefly identify the conceptual framework within which the main analysis of Attic evidential phenomena occurs. Then, I provide a preliminary overview of (possible) linguistic means used in marking evidentiality in Ancient Gre…
The diversity of Ancient Greek through the eyes of a forgotten grammarian: Petrus Antesignanus (ca. 1524/1525–1561) on the notion of “dialect”
The linguistic ideas of the 16th-century French grammarian Petrus Antesignanus have been largely neglected up till now. In the present paper, I aim to partially repair this research lacuna within the context of the notion of “dialect”. After some short introductory notes on Antesignanus’ life and works, I discuss his conception of dialect, which is expounded in his 1554 scholia on Nicolaus Clenardus’ Greek grammar. This analysis occurs both on a …
Grammatik: Wissen und Macht in der Geschichte einer sprachlichen Institution
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On language diversity and relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles
Negative Polarity Items in Questions: Strength as Relevance
The traditional approach towards (negative) polarity items is to answer the question in which contexts NPIs are licensed. The inspiring approaches of Kadmon & Landman (1990, 1993) (K&L) and Krifka (1990, 1992, 1995) go a major step further: they also seek to answer the question of why these contexts license NPIs. To explain the appropriate use of polarity items in questions, however, we need to answer an even more challenging question: why is a N…
Asserting to resolve decision problems
Bi-Directional Optimality Theory: An Application of Game Theory
Optimality Theory catches on in linguistics, first in phonology, then in syntax, and recently also at the semantics/pragmatics interface. In this paper we point to some parallels between principles employed in optimality theoretic interpretation, and notions from the wellestablished field of Game Theory. Optimality theoretic interpretation can be defined as what we call an ‘interpretation game’, and optimality itself can be viewed as a solution c…
Permission to Change
In this paper I discuss how to account for the performative effects of imperatives, and concentrate mainly on permission sentences. In the first part of the paper I argue that the performative effects of permission sentences should be accounted for in terms of a context change theory by making use of contraction defined in terms of an ordering relation, and show also how this ordering relation evolves from permission to permission. In the second …
Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles
Permission to Change
In this paper I discuss how to account for the performative effects of imperatives, and concentrate mainly on permission sentences. In the first part of the paper I argue that the performative effects of permission sentences should be accounted for in terms of a context change theory by making use of contraction defined in terms of an ordering relation, and show also how this ordering relation evolves from permission to permission. In the second …
The Relevance of Evidentiality for Ancient Greek: Some Explorative Steps through Plato
The present paper aims at drawing renewed attention to the relevance of evidentiality for Ancient Greek by means of a number of case studies taken from two of Plato’s works (namely the Apologia Socratis and Crito ). First, I briefly identify the conceptual framework within which the main analysis of Attic evidential phenomena occurs. Then, I provide a preliminary overview of (possible) linguistic means used in marking evidentiality in Ancient Gre…
Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context
A korajkor
Early Modern Terminology for Dialect: Denigration, Purism, and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy
When the language-dialect dichotomy first emerged in the early modern period, several scholars devised terminological alternatives, particularly for the subordinate lower half of the dichotomy. This article examines a series of terminological alternatives in their social and linguistic contexts, considering terms from the Romance, Germanic, and Slavic linguistic zones. Our case studies suggest that there were two main reasons for coining neologis…
Grammatik: Wissen und Macht in der Geschichte einer sprachlichen Institution
Preview this article: Robert Stockhammer, Grammatik: Wissen und Macht in der Geschichte einer sprachlichen Institution (Berlin, 2014), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.42.1.14roo-1.gif
Bi-Directional Optimality Theory: An Application of Game Theory
Optimality Theory catches on in linguistics, first in phonology, then in syntax, and recently also at the semantics/pragmatics interface. In this paper we point to some parallels between principles employed in optimality theoretic interpretation, and notions from the wellestablished field of Game Theory. Optimality theoretic interpretation can be defined as what we call an ‘interpretation game’, and optimality itself can be viewed as a solution c…
Permission to Change
In this paper I discuss how to account for the performative effects of imperatives, and concentrate mainly on permission sentences. In the first part of the paper I argue that the performative effects of permission sentences should be accounted for in terms of a context change theory by making use of contraction defined in terms of an ordering relation, and show also how this ordering relation evolves from permission to permission. In the second …
Negative Polarity Items in Questions: Strength as Relevance
The traditional approach towards (negative) polarity items is to answer the question in which contexts NPIs are licensed. The inspiring approaches of Kadmon & Landman (1990, 1993) (K&L) and Krifka (1990, 1992, 1995) go a major step further: they also seek to answer the question of why these contexts license NPIs. To explain the appropriate use of polarity items in questions, however, we need to answer an even more challenging question: why is a N…
Asserting to resolve decision problems
Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles
On language diversity and relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
Grammatik: Wissen und Macht in der Geschichte einer sprachlichen Institution
Preview this article: Robert Stockhammer, Grammatik: Wissen und Macht in der Geschichte einer sprachlichen Institution (Berlin, 2014), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.42.1.14roo-1.gif
The Relevance of Evidentiality for Ancient Greek: Some Explorative Steps through Plato
The present paper aims at drawing renewed attention to the relevance of evidentiality for Ancient Greek by means of a number of case studies taken from two of Plato’s works (namely the Apologia Socratis and Crito ). First, I briefly identify the conceptual framework within which the main analysis of Attic evidential phenomena occurs. Then, I provide a preliminary overview of (possible) linguistic means used in marking evidentiality in Ancient Gre…
The diversity of Ancient Greek through the eyes of a forgotten grammarian: Petrus Antesignanus (ca. 1524/1525–1561) on the notion of “dialect”
The linguistic ideas of the 16th-century French grammarian Petrus Antesignanus have been largely neglected up till now. In the present paper, I aim to partially repair this research lacuna within the context of the notion of “dialect”. After some short introductory notes on Antesignanus’ life and works, I discuss his conception of dialect, which is expounded in his 1554 scholia on Nicolaus Clenardus’ Greek grammar. This analysis occurs both on a …
Differing only in dialect', or How collocations can co-shape concepts
Plutarque dialectologue » La pseudo-autorité de Plutarque dans le discours sur les dialectes grecs à la Renaissance (ca. 1400–1670)
Plutarchus is de auteur van een omvangrijk oeuvre dat in de Renaissance (ca. 1400– 1670) zelfs nog uitgebreider werd geacht. Voor de humanisten bevatte het immers ook een biografie van Homerus, waarvan de eigenlijke auteur tot op heden onbekend is gebleven. Een onderdeel van deze pseudoplutarchische Vita Homeri (Leven van Homerus) ging zelfs een eigen leven leiden als een apart traktaat : m. n. de Περὶ τῶν παρὰ Ὁμήρῳ διαλέκτων (Over de dialecten …
A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (c.1495–1560) and the Study of Greek in Sixteenth-Century Louvain
status: Published
Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg
An important source type for the underexplored history of early modern dialect studies is the academic dissertation, of which the Disputatio de causis dialectorum, speciatim Graecarum (1702) constitutes a unique yet unstudied specimen. Presented in Wittenberg by the Hellenist Christian Gottlieb Schwartz (1675–1751; praeses) and the further unknown Abraham Helm (respondens), it was the first dissertation to systematically treat the topic. Its appe…
Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context
A korajkor
An ablative for the Greeks: A grammar dispute in Tübingen (1585/1586) and its implications
In this article, I discuss a grammar dispute that took place between Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin and Martin Crusius in Tübingen in the winter of 1585/1586. I argue that their diverging views on the ablative case reflect a disagreement on two levels, in addition to their obvious personal rivalry: (1) the foundations of grammar, which Frischlin based on meaning rather than form, following J. C. Scaliger, and (2) contrasting attitudes toward the Gre…
Graecia Belgica: Writing Ancient Greek in the early modern Low Countries
The early modern Low Countries formed a multilingual region where Latin and several vernaculars lived in symbiosis. It is often forgotten, however, that Ancient Greek was also cultivated among the cultural and intellectual elite, so intensely that a vast corpus of Greek texts was produced in this region. This article offers a first exploration of the reasons behind this cultural phenomenon. It starts with a general introduction, including a state…
Introduction: The crosslinguistic application of grammatical categories in the history of linguistics
In the present introduction, I aim to provide some general context for the case studies in this special issue by introducing some recent developments in linguistics that inspired them (in particular the Haspelmath – Newmeyer debate) and by roughly sketching tendencies in the long history of linguistic description. I argue that the crosslinguistic application of linguistic categories is an old phenomenon, going back two millennia, that offers an e…
The French aorist in sixteenth-century grammar, or how to make the best of a bad Greek concept
In this paper, I argue that sixteenth-century French grammarians subtly adapted the Greek concept of aorist to their native language in order to fill a gap left by past tense descriptions in Latin grammar. In this French aorist concept, they amalgamated features today associated with tense and aspect. I start out by recalling the origin of the aorist concept in Greek antiquity, Byzantium, and the Italian Renaissance. Then I look at French grammar…
Acciarino, Damiano, project lead. Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism (Atra). Database
The Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism (ATRA) database offers a digital gateway to "the circulation of antiquarian learning in sixteenth-century Europe" by linking letters of scholars involved in the development and spread of "the antiquarian method" ("Home").The database is the result of a European Commission-funded MSCA-IF project that ran from 2017 until 2020 (grant no.745704).The platform was realized by a team of eight Italian scholars unde…
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World: The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, ac…
Ippolita Maria Sforza, Student and Patron of Greek in Milan
When ancient Greek heritage was rehabilitated in the Renaissance, its students were first and foremost aspiring humanists, and, almost as a rule, men. An early exception was Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445-88), the eldest daughter of the Duke of Milan, Francesco I Sforza. I argue that she not only studied the Greek language but also acted as a patron of Greek studies. Sforza's double role is confirmed by two Greek grammars dedicated to her and connec…
Early Modern Terminology for Dialect: Denigration, Purism, and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy
When the language-dialect dichotomy first emerged in the early modern period, several scholars devised terminological alternatives, particularly for the subordinate lower half of the dichotomy. This article examines a series of terminological alternatives in their social and linguistic contexts, considering terms from the Romance, Germanic, and Slavic linguistic zones. Our case studies suggest that there were two main reasons for coining neologis…
Letters at trial: The Lucianic Judgment of the Vowels Gallicized (1654)
In the Second Sophistic (fl. ca. 50–230 CE), Greek writers developed a fascination with the literary dialect of classical Athens (5th century BCE). This Atticist zealotry was skillfully mocked in a satirical oration attributed to Lucian, in which the letter Sigma complains before a jury of vowels that his rival Tau has stolen various words from him. This pun-infested text, however short, posed problems for early modern translators. Notably, the r…
Presentation of DaLeT, Database of the Leuven Trilingue
status: Published
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