Marcin Kilarski
Biographic Data
| ID | 531897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcin Kilarski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilarski |
| SIGNATURE | KILARSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4741-8087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mixtec classifiers before typology
In this paper we examine the description of noun classifiers in the Teposcolula variety of Mixtec (Otomanguean; Mexico) in Arte en lengua mixteca by Antonio de los Reyes (d.1603). His 1593 grammar is a valuable source of information about 16th-century Mixtec, which showed little influence from Spanish. Among its innovative features, de los Reyes described the semantic, functional, and diachronic properties of noun classifiers with a detail and ac…
The Place of Jakób Handel (1888-c.1942) in the History of Language Study in Poland
In this paper we examine the life and work of Jakób Handel (1888-c.1942), an underappreciated Polish-Jewish scholar whose interests ranged from comparative-historical linguistics and the history of linguistics to classical history and Jewish studies. Apart from printed publications, his contributions include various forms of outreach directed towards the Jewish community in Lviv (Ukrainian Львів [L'viv], Polish Lwów, German Lemberg). Based among …
Erminnie A. Smith (1836–1886)
In this paper I discuss the varied contributions of Erminnie Adele Smith (1836–1886), a linguist, ethnologist, and geologist, who has a significant but underestimated place in the history of the study of North American languages. Among others, Smith was among the first scholars to collaborate extensively with Indigenous consultants and the first woman in the history of Western linguistics who published works on grammatical gender. Such achievemen…
Gender and numeral classifiers in Modern Nepali and their Proto-Indo-European analogues
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) had two grammatical genders (common and neuter); the feminine was a shared innovation of the non-Anatolian part of the family. Using comparison with Modern Nepali, we argue that the puzzling feminine forms of the numerals ‘3’ and ‘4’ in Celtic and Indo-Iranian, and possibly also some similar constructions in Latin and Old Irish, are survivals of a system of numeral classifiers predating the full gender system. They conta…
A ‘Small’ Language in Contact with a ‘Big’ One
In this paper we discuss changes in possession marking in Tének (also Teenek, Huastec), a Mayan language spoken in Mexico. While traditionally only alienable possession is marked overtly with the suffix - il attached to the possessed noun, the marker of alienable possession is being extended in the speech of young and socially mobile Tének speakers to contexts traditionally lacking overt possession marking. We attribute this extension to changes …
Gender Asymmetries in Iroquoian Languages and their Cultural Correlates
This article examines the approaches to grammatical gender in Northern Iroquoian languages, ranging from the earliest references made by French missionaries in the 1630s to contemporary studies. The author focuses on two motifs in descriptions of Iroquoian gender: the supposedly 'primitive' nature of its morphological expression, which was mentioned predominantly in 18th-century accounts of Huron, and the asymmetries between the expression of mas…
The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics
This article examines the approaches to classifiers within the Western tradition, ranging from the earliest accounts of the languages of Mesoamerica and East Asia from the 16th-17th centuries to ongoing discussions regarding their semantic motivation and functionality. I show that in spite of the limited attention they attracted before the 1970s, classifiers have played an important role in discussions concerning such notions as the functions of …
Functions of nominal classification
On extremes in linguistic complexity
This article examines common motifs in the accounts of the sound systems of Iroquoian, Polynesian and Khoesan languages as the most well-known cases of extremes in phonetic complexity. On the basis of examples from European and American scholarship between the 17th and early 20th century, we investigate continuities in the description of their seemingly 'exotic' inventories and phonotactic structures when viewed from the perspective of European l…
"On "Eskimo Words for Snow
This article examines the complex interdependence of linguistics and the discourses of social sciences and philosophy based on the example of the Eskimo words for snow. In particular, we trace the life cycle of the example through three phases: (1) the origin of the misconception in the studies of Franz Boas (1858-1942) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941); (2) its propagation in textbooks and in sympathetic and alternative theoretical contexts, an…
Cherokee Classificatory Verbs
This article examines the role played by the Cherokee verbs for 'wash', first cited in 1820 by John Pickering (1777-1848), in studies which postulated lexical redundancy and the lack of generic terms in 'primitive' languages. Like the more well-known "Eskimo words for 'snow'", the Cherokee verbs provide an example of misanalysis of the complexity of polysynthetic morphology and negligence in the presentation of data from 'exotic' languages. In ad…
Algonquian and Indo-European gender in a Historiographic Perspective
This article examines shared motifs in the history of the study of grammatical gender in North American Indian and Indo-European languages. Specifically, I investigate the degree of semantic and cultural motivation attributed to gender in Algonquian languages, and present analogies with accounts of gender in Indo-European. The presence of exceptions within animate gender in Algonquian has led to conflicting interpretations: while some focused on …
Cherokee Classificatory Verbs
This article examines the role played by the Cherokee verbs for 'wash', first cited in 1820 by John Pickering (1777-1848), in studies which postulated lexical redundancy and the lack of generic terms in 'primitive' languages. Like the more well-known "Eskimo words for 'snow'", the Cherokee verbs provide an example of misanalysis of the complexity of polysynthetic morphology and negligence in the presentation of data from 'exotic' languages. In ad…
Functions of nominal classification
"On "Eskimo Words for Snow
This article examines the complex interdependence of linguistics and the discourses of social sciences and philosophy based on the example of the Eskimo words for snow. In particular, we trace the life cycle of the example through three phases: (1) the origin of the misconception in the studies of Franz Boas (1858-1942) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941); (2) its propagation in textbooks and in sympathetic and alternative theoretical contexts, an…
Algonquian and Indo-European gender in a Historiographic Perspective
This article examines shared motifs in the history of the study of grammatical gender in North American Indian and Indo-European languages. Specifically, I investigate the degree of semantic and cultural motivation attributed to gender in Algonquian languages, and present analogies with accounts of gender in Indo-European. The presence of exceptions within animate gender in Algonquian has led to conflicting interpretations: while some focused on …
Gender Asymmetries in Iroquoian Languages and their Cultural Correlates
This article examines the approaches to grammatical gender in Northern Iroquoian languages, ranging from the earliest references made by French missionaries in the 1630s to contemporary studies. The author focuses on two motifs in descriptions of Iroquoian gender: the supposedly 'primitive' nature of its morphological expression, which was mentioned predominantly in 18th-century accounts of Huron, and the asymmetries between the expression of mas…
The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics
This article examines the approaches to classifiers within the Western tradition, ranging from the earliest accounts of the languages of Mesoamerica and East Asia from the 16th-17th centuries to ongoing discussions regarding their semantic motivation and functionality. I show that in spite of the limited attention they attracted before the 1970s, classifiers have played an important role in discussions concerning such notions as the functions of …
On extremes in linguistic complexity
This article examines common motifs in the accounts of the sound systems of Iroquoian, Polynesian and Khoesan languages as the most well-known cases of extremes in phonetic complexity. On the basis of examples from European and American scholarship between the 17th and early 20th century, we investigate continuities in the description of their seemingly 'exotic' inventories and phonotactic structures when viewed from the perspective of European l…
Algonquian and Indo-European gender in a Historiographic Perspective
This article examines shared motifs in the history of the study of grammatical gender in North American Indian and Indo-European languages. Specifically, I investigate the degree of semantic and cultural motivation attributed to gender in Algonquian languages, and present analogies with accounts of gender in Indo-European. The presence of exceptions within animate gender in Algonquian has led to conflicting interpretations: while some focused on …
Cherokee Classificatory Verbs
This article examines the role played by the Cherokee verbs for 'wash', first cited in 1820 by John Pickering (1777-1848), in studies which postulated lexical redundancy and the lack of generic terms in 'primitive' languages. Like the more well-known "Eskimo words for 'snow'", the Cherokee verbs provide an example of misanalysis of the complexity of polysynthetic morphology and negligence in the presentation of data from 'exotic' languages. In ad…
"On "Eskimo Words for Snow
This article examines the complex interdependence of linguistics and the discourses of social sciences and philosophy based on the example of the Eskimo words for snow. In particular, we trace the life cycle of the example through three phases: (1) the origin of the misconception in the studies of Franz Boas (1858-1942) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941); (2) its propagation in textbooks and in sympathetic and alternative theoretical contexts, an…
On extremes in linguistic complexity
This article examines common motifs in the accounts of the sound systems of Iroquoian, Polynesian and Khoesan languages as the most well-known cases of extremes in phonetic complexity. On the basis of examples from European and American scholarship between the 17th and early 20th century, we investigate continuities in the description of their seemingly 'exotic' inventories and phonotactic structures when viewed from the perspective of European l…
Functions of nominal classification
The Place of Classifiers in the History of Linguistics
This article examines the approaches to classifiers within the Western tradition, ranging from the earliest accounts of the languages of Mesoamerica and East Asia from the 16th-17th centuries to ongoing discussions regarding their semantic motivation and functionality. I show that in spite of the limited attention they attracted before the 1970s, classifiers have played an important role in discussions concerning such notions as the functions of …
Gender Asymmetries in Iroquoian Languages and their Cultural Correlates
This article examines the approaches to grammatical gender in Northern Iroquoian languages, ranging from the earliest references made by French missionaries in the 1630s to contemporary studies. The author focuses on two motifs in descriptions of Iroquoian gender: the supposedly 'primitive' nature of its morphological expression, which was mentioned predominantly in 18th-century accounts of Huron, and the asymmetries between the expression of mas…
A ‘Small’ Language in Contact with a ‘Big’ One
In this paper we discuss changes in possession marking in Tének (also Teenek, Huastec), a Mayan language spoken in Mexico. While traditionally only alienable possession is marked overtly with the suffix - il attached to the possessed noun, the marker of alienable possession is being extended in the speech of young and socially mobile Tének speakers to contexts traditionally lacking overt possession marking. We attribute this extension to changes …
Gender and numeral classifiers in Modern Nepali and their Proto-Indo-European analogues
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) had two grammatical genders (common and neuter); the feminine was a shared innovation of the non-Anatolian part of the family. Using comparison with Modern Nepali, we argue that the puzzling feminine forms of the numerals ‘3’ and ‘4’ in Celtic and Indo-Iranian, and possibly also some similar constructions in Latin and Old Irish, are survivals of a system of numeral classifiers predating the full gender system. They conta…
Erminnie A. Smith (1836–1886)
In this paper I discuss the varied contributions of Erminnie Adele Smith (1836–1886), a linguist, ethnologist, and geologist, who has a significant but underestimated place in the history of the study of North American languages. Among others, Smith was among the first scholars to collaborate extensively with Indigenous consultants and the first woman in the history of Western linguistics who published works on grammatical gender. Such achievemen…
The Place of Jakób Handel (1888-c.1942) in the History of Language Study in Poland
In this paper we examine the life and work of Jakób Handel (1888-c.1942), an underappreciated Polish-Jewish scholar whose interests ranged from comparative-historical linguistics and the history of linguistics to classical history and Jewish studies. Apart from printed publications, his contributions include various forms of outreach directed towards the Jewish community in Lviv (Ukrainian Львів [L'viv], Polish Lwów, German Lemberg). Based among …
Mixtec classifiers before typology
In this paper we examine the description of noun classifiers in the Teposcolula variety of Mixtec (Otomanguean; Mexico) in Arte en lengua mixteca by Antonio de los Reyes (d.1603). His 1593 grammar is a valuable source of information about 16th-century Mixtec, which showed little influence from Spanish. Among its innovative features, de los Reyes described the semantic, functional, and diachronic properties of noun classifiers with a detail and ac…
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