Philology


The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
Beowulf
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
A Guide to Old English
Studies in Words (Canto)
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Great Gatsby
Morphology of the Folktale
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Romeo and Juliet
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Indo-European Poetry and Myth
The Normans by Judith A. GreenThe Normans by Lars BrownworthThe Norman Conquest by Marc MorrisThe Normans in Sicily  by John Julius NorwichThe Guernsey Norman French Translations of Thomas Martin by MC Jones
Norman History And Philology
10 books — 1 voter
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxBreaking the Maya Code by Michael D. CoeThe Code Book by Simon SinghLost Languages by Andrew RobinsonThe Writing of the Gods by Edward Dolnick
Cryptolinguistics
16 books — 17 voters

The Night of the Gods by John          O'NeillBaal, St. George, and Khidr by Robert D. Miller IIThe Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel OgdenKa by Hugh CrosthwaiteThe First Ghosts by Irving Finkel
•Bottomless Antiquarium
103 books — 2 voters
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstThe Power of Babel by Michel PierssensText Structure by Nelly TinchevaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaExophony by Yōko Tawada
•Lingualish'tics
106 books — 15 voters


That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be found of handling it objectively. [...] This chapter considers the applicability of the statistical tests employed by Wilson and the general problem whether the Linear B data are suited to statistical analysis.
Jennifer K. McArthur, Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location

Ma d'altra parte, il linguista che voglia interpretare un testo oggi deve fare i conti con la frattura che esiste tra l'archeologia e la filologia in America. Il punto di vista filologico, con il suo dotto interesse per i testi come tali, è diventato ostico e incomprensibile per l'archeologia americana moderna, altamente sviluppata scientificamente per quel che riguarda la correlazione logica di prove strettamente materiali, ma la cui popolarità e i cui finanziamenti sono strettamente connessi c ...more
Whorf Benjamin Lee 1897-1941, Language, Thought, and Reality; Selected Writings

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