title: Philology and the History of Words: Some Notes on the Humanists’ Etymological Argumentation
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metadata.value: Sergeev, Mikhail
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metadata.value: 2021-12-03T17:19:28Z
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metadata.value: 2021-12-03T17:19:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Sergeev M. Philology and the History of Words: Some Notes on the Humanists’ Etymological Argumentation. Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (1), 106–116.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33761
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article concerns the influence of humanist scholarship on sixteenth-century etymological
  practices, testified in the Neo-Latin reference works and special treatises on linguistics and
  history. Being an important part of historical research, which relied mostly on Greek and
  Latin literary sources, etymology could not but adopt some important principles and instruments
  of contemporary philological work, notably on the source criticism. The foremost rule
  was to study the sources in their original language, form, and eliminate any corrupted data as
  well as any information not attested in written sources. This presumed that every text had its
  own written history, which tended to be a gradual deterioration of its state, represented in the
  manuscript tradition that was subject to scribal errors and misinterpretations. This view on
  the textual history was strikingly consonant with that on the history of languages, which was
  treated by the humanists as permanent corruption and inevitable degeneration from the noble
  and perfect state of their ancient ancestors. In an effort to restore the original text, philology
  used emendation as a cure for scribal abuse and textual losses; likewise, language historians
  had their own tool, namely etymology, to reconstruct and explain the original form of words
  (including the nomenclature of various sciences). The intersection of both procedures is taken
  into account in the article and it demonstrates how textual conjectures, manuscript collation,
  and graphical interpretation of misreadings were employed by the sixteenth-century scholars
  to corroborate their etymological speculations, which established themselves as one of the
  ways of the reception and criticism of classical scholarly heritage.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was supported by RFBR (project No. 20-012-00357).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: fr
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of philology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reception of antiquity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 16th century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Neo-Latin handbooks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: textual criticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: German
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Philology and the History of Words: Some Notes on the Humanists’ Etymological Argumentation
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metadata.value: Article
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