Filologisk-filosofiska serien

Corpus linguistics in Sweden: Pioneers and their context first presents the early international development for corpus linguistics and the institutional and disciplinary conditions for research on the subject in Sweden.

Gunnar Mascoll Silfverstolpe (1893-1942) var konsthistoriker och överintendent vid Kungl. Husgerådskammaren. Men han var också poet, översättare och litteraturkritiker i Sveriges då största dagstidning, Stockholms-Tidningen. Han skrev engagerat och insiktsfullt om Ekelund, Lagerkvist och Edith Södergran, Edfelt, Ekelöf och många andra. Den hotade idyllen behandlar både Silfverstolpes lyrik - från

Ivan Engnell (1906–1964) var under åren 1947–1964 professor i Gamla Testamentets exegetik vid Uppsala universitet. Hans tid markerar ämnets övergång från att vara en främst teologisk disciplin till att bli ett religionshistoriskt orienterat ämne.

Chinese characters were simplified in 1956, ten years after their Japanese counterparts. This book traces the origins of simplified form and compares it with rejected alternatives. It concludes that 90 to 91 percent of the new official Chinese forms were in use before the reforms, compared with nearly 100 percent of the Japanese ones.

Ènver A. Makaev's "The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions" was published in 1965, but it has never reached the broad readership it deserves within the world's scholarly community because it was written in Russian. Reviews in Western journals called attention to this work, but they could not replace direct access to the work present translation into English makes this important contribution

Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694), the famous theorist on natural law in 17th century Europe, was a professor at the University of Lund in Sweden from 1668 to 1676. At Lund he is commemorated every year in the Pufendorf Lectures given by renowned international scholars. This book contains his original thinking in the form of notes taken at the lectures on natural law Pufendorf delivered 1672–1674. No o