Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Statesman and ‘New Philologist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5014133 |
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| Authors | Rebecca Posner (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339-356 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.17.3.05pos |
| OpenAlex | W2066161747 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863) was a Liberal statesman who attained high office, but whose interest in the 'new philology' was maintained throughout his life, although he also wrote extensively on politics and history. His most interesting philological work is an Essay on the For- mation of the Romance Languages (1835) which predates the more famous 4-volume Grammar, by Friedrich Diez (1794-1876), which appeared during 1836-1844, and which advances the hypothesis that a creolization process was responsible for the change of Latin to Romance, rejecting as unsubstantiated Diez's suggestion that a popular Latin was at the origin of the Romance languages. Lewis's work on Romance is placed in the context of the development of the study of modern languages at Oxford University, and of the 'new philology' which was gaining ground in intellectual circles in 19th-century Britain
Admiration · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Feminism · George (robot · Humanities · Literature · Philology · Political science · Politics · Romance · Classical Studies and Philology · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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