The phrase "linguistic turn" was used to describe the noteworthy emphasis that contemporary philosophers put upon language.Language began to play a central role in Western philosophy in the early 20th century. One of the central figures involved in this development was the German philosopher Gottlob Frege, whose work on philosophical logic and the philosophy of …

Redacción. Sebastián de Covarrubias empezó a redactar el que sería su Tesoro en la primavera de 1605.El trabajo lo realizó en los años siguientes entre las ciudades de Valencia y Cuenca.La avanzada edad del autor (66 años al comenzar el proyecto) hizo que a partir de la letra C redujera la extensión media de los artículos, a causa del temor a morir antes de acabar su obra.

Martin Becanus (1563–1624), brabantischer Kontroverstheologe; Mutio Vitelleschi (1563–1645), sechster Generaloberer, Amtszeit von 1615 bis 1645; Pedro Páez (1564–1622), italienischer Missionar in Indien und Äthiopien; Niccolò Longobardo (1565–1654), italienischer Missionar in China; Paul Miki (1565–1597), Missionar in China, Märtyrer

Geschiedenis De oude Grieken. In het Westen gaat de taalfilosofie terug op de oude Grieken in de vijfde eeuw voor Christus, bij de sofisten en bij filosofen als Socrates, Plato, Aristoteles en de Stoa.Men kan stellen dat de eerste filosofische aandacht voor de taal naar voren kwam in het werk van Parmenides.Deze filosoof stelde dat, als men de termen zijn en niet zijn goed …

Founding Fathers In the 1600s, Joannes Goropius Becanus was the oldest representative of Dutch linguistics. He was the first person to publish a fragment of Gothic, mainly The lord's prayer. Franciscus Juniuns, Lambert ten Kate from Amsterdam and George Hickes from England are considered to be the founding fathers of German linguistics.

La stele di Rosetta è una stele egizia di granodiorite che riporta un'iscrizione divisa in tre registri, per tre differenti grafie: geroglifici, demotico e greco antico.L'iscrizione è il testo di un decreto tolemaico emesso nel 196 a.C. in onore del faraone Tolomeo V Epifane, al tempo tredicenne, in occasione del primo anniversario della sua incoronazione.

Ferdinand II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria.His parents were devout Catholics, and, in 1590, they sent him to study at the Jesuits' college in Ingolstadt because they wanted to isolate him from the …

La piedra de Rosetta es un fragmento de una antigua estela egipcia de granodiorita inscrita con un decreto publicado en Menfis en el año 196 a. C. en nombre del faraón Ptolomeo V.El decreto aparece en tres escrituras distintas: el texto superior en jeroglíficos egipcios, la parte intermedia en escritura demótica y la inferior en griego antiguo.Gracias a que presenta esencialmente el …

Folk etymology (also known as popular etymology, analogical reformation, reanalysis, morphological reanalysis or etymological reinterpretation) is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one. The form or the meaning of an archaic, foreign, or otherwise unfamiliar word is reinterpreted as resembling …

C. John Cadbury, British businessman – Cadbury; Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer – Cadillac; Julius Caesar, Roman consul and general – the month of July, Caesar cipher, the titles Czar, Tsar, and Kaiser, the Bloody Caesar cocktail. An urban legend also erroneously credits Julius Caesar as having given his name to the caesarean section; the two are likely unrelated, …