Lord Monboddo, Sanskrit and Comparative Linguistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3968769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosane Rocher (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/601383 |
| OpenAlex | W2321208173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Scholars have debated the extent of Sir William Jones' influence on Lord Monboddo's appreciation of Sanskrit and theories on linguistic kinship. A review of Monboddo's remarks on Sanskrit in his two multivolume works shows that he derived most of his information from three sources: first, from considerations by the French Jesuit Pons; then, from N.B. Halhed's preface to A Code of Gentoo Laws (1776) and Grammar of the Bengal Language (1778); and later, from private communications by Charles Wilkins. Among these, Halhed's role was pivotal. On the other hand, the first two volumes of Monboddo's Origin and Progress of Language had helped shape Halhed's linguistic thinking, as is manifest in one of his unpublished papers. All this has to be viewed in the context of eighteenth-century thought, which did not view language as an independent phenomenon, but sought to identify the country from which all culture emanated
Comparative linguistics · Historical linguistics · Linguistics · Philology · Sanskrit · Sociology · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |