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Researcher
Pierre Swiggers
- Disciplines:Comparative language studies, Other European languages, Diachronic linguistics, Dialectology, Historical linguistics, Writing systems
Affiliations
- Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven (Research group)
Member
From1 Dec 2005 → Today - Faculty of Arts (Faculty)
Member
From1 Oct 2005 → 31 Dec 2005
Projects
1 - 10 of 13
- The traces of Humboldt’s Sprachphilosophie in the theory and practice of language study within the Flemish Movement, 1830 to 1914From9 Mar 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- From Grammatical to Didactic Modelization: A Comparative Analysis of Early Romance Grammaticography (up to 1600) (French, Occitan, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)From26 Feb 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Language comparison and emancipation: The pivotal role of Ancient Greek in Renaissance language studies (ca. 1390– 1600)From1 Oct 2020 → 1 Oct 2022Funding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- Aristotle’s view of language as a dynamic system: the interplay between structural and pragmatic functionsFrom1 Feb 2017 → 31 Jan 2020Funding: FWO fellowships
- Linguistic and cultural education in Western Christianity, from c. 380 until 735: A study of the content, form, and sociocultural insertion of Latin language manualsFrom1 Oct 2016 → 26 Jun 2018Funding: FWO fellowships
- The Status and Functions of the Ancient Greek particle δή in the Dialogues of Plato, with an Analysis of its Translation into Dutch and PolishFrom15 Sep 2016 → 5 Oct 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The art of transforming traditions: Conceptual developments in early modern American missionary grammar writingFrom17 Dec 2015 → 23 Oct 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Evolving views on the worlds languages in a globalizing world (1540-1840): information growth, conceptual shifts, scholarly networks in the circulation of linguistic knowledge.From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- The concept of functional opposition in general linguistics, 1916-1966: methodological status and technicaldescriptive relevance.From1 Oct 2014 → 30 Nov 2017Funding: FWO fellowships
- "Language" and/vs. "dialect" in Early Modern linguistic thought: concept formation and empirical underpinnings, with special reference to the ancient Greek backgroundFrom1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2017Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 266
- Van Leuven naar het Baskenland: Andrés de Poza(2022)
Authors: Pierre Swiggers
Pages: 17 - 20 - Collision au carrefour des idées (linguistiques): Typographie, prosodie, pragmatique linguistique et herméneutique(2022)
Authors: Pierre Swiggers
Pages: 41 - 57 - On the ‘affinities of Oriental languages’: Wilhelm von Humboldt and his British connections(2021)
Authors: Pierre Swiggers, Werner Thomas, Toon Van Hal
Pages: 265 - 287 - The emergence of grammar in the Western world Grammatical theory and language teaching in Greek Antiquity(2021)
Authors: Pierre Swiggers, Alfons Wouters
Pages: 23 - 42Number of pages: 20 - Spanish grammaticography and the teaching of Spanish in the sixteenth centurySpanish grammaticography and the teaching of Spanish in the sixteenth century(2021)
Authors: Pierre Swiggers
Pages: 77 - 95Number of pages: 19 - Comment convertir Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Δύσκολος en Apollonius Facilis: à propos de la première « édition critique » du Περὶ συντάξεως (1590)(2021)
Authors: Ana Kotarcic, Raf Van Rooy, Pierre Swiggers
Pages: 241 - 265 - Der Krefelder Linguist Franz Nikolaus Finck (1867-1910): Sprechtätigkeit als Grundlage einer umfassenden Sprachtheorie(2021)
Authors: Herman Seldeslachts, Pierre Swiggers
Pages: 73 - 74 - Lingüística misionera y circulación del saber (siglos XVI‒XVIII): un proyecto interdisciplinar(2020)
Authors: Godelieve Behiels, Toon Van Hal, Zanna Van Loon, Andy Peetermans, Pierre Swiggers, Werner Thomas
Pages: 181 - 199 - Plantin's Printing of a Syriac Primer / Un abécédaire syriaque imprimé sur les presses de Plantin(2020)
Authors: Pierre Swiggers
Pages: 293 - 298 - The art of transforming traditions: Conceptual developments in early modern American missionary grammar writing(2020)
Authors: Andy Peetermans, Toon Van Hal, Pierre Swiggers