Hoogvliet versus Van Ginneken. Dutch linguistics around the turn of the century.

In the last two decades of the 19th century the Dutch linguist Jan Marius Hoogvliet (1860-1924) developed an individual approach to non-historical linguistics, in which he sought to take expressly into account data from non-Indo-European languages. His linguistic views prompted him to attack the ideas of the proponents of the 'world language' Volapük, which was popular in the Netherlands in the 1880s. In 1903 his major work, Lingua, appeared. This book can aptly be characterized as a specimen of a universal grammar with psychological underpinnings; it was intended as a grammar for all language... Mehr ...