"Language" and/vs. "dialect" in Early Modern linguistic thought: concept formation and empirical underpinnings, with special reference to the ancient Greek background KU Leuven
Although the roots of the twin concepts "language" and "dialect" hark back to Greek antiquity, there is no general agreement about their definitions in present-day scholarship, to the point that a number of scholars refrain from using the term "dialect" as distinct from "language." In order to arrive at a better understanding of this pair and its modern conceptualization, a systematic historiographical study of its origin and development is ...