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Martin Aedler and the «High Dutch Minerva»: The First German Grammar for the English

Martin Aedler and the «High Dutch Minerva»: The First German Grammar for the English

Van Der Lubbe, Fredericka
Ammon, Ulrich

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Series: Dask - Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers On Research In Langu, Book 68

English as a Second LanguageGermanLinguistics

ISBN10: 363156287X
ISBN13: 9783631562871
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Feb 1 2007
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Who wrote the High Dutch Minerva? And why? This work seeks to disprove the reasons offered by scholars for the emergence of the first German grammar for the English, the High Dutch Minerva (1680), by considering biographical material on the author, Martin Aedler (1643-1724), placing the author and his work in their German and English social contexts. It argues that Aedler, a lecturer in Hebrew, published his grammar for the use of the English intellectual elite, but did so to satisfy the patriotic imperatives of members of the German language societies and their desire to legitimate the German language for a new audience; Aedler does this through the use of universal grammar. Included is an edition of his correspondence which sheds light on the teaching of Hebrew at Cambridge.

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