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12-10-2020
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History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
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In 1668 the Dutch scholar Adriaan Koerbagh was convicterd of publishing a radical book. The main reason for his conviction, however, was that he published it in his mother tongue. In this paper it is demonstrated how Koerbagh how Koerbagh fits into a purist tradition that goes back to Goropius Becanus and Simon Stevin and which is also found in ther works of the German grammarian Schottelius.
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Web publication or website
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English
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https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/10/12/death-of-a-purist/
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