This page lists all posts in the category 'Early sources' on The Ideophone.
‘Early sources’, as used here, refers to sources of linguistic and anthropological interest that are relatively old and often hard to come by. This includes early descriptions of African languages but also photos and text from missionary archives. One of the goals of The Ideophone is to make such sources freely available where possible.
...they are playthings, not the tools of language.
Max Müller, 1862
Half-baked ideas, raw data, and sometimes a glimmer of insight. The Ideophone is a blog by Mark Dingemanse, PhD fellow in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Reach me at firstname.lastname@mpi.nl.
Damit war auch die Frage nach einem passenden Ort für die Haupt-Station gelöst. Das schön, frei und gesund und doch nicht allzu hoch gelegene Akpafu, die zweitgrößte Stadt in Boem, war der geeignete Ort.
Andreas Pfisterer, 1904, on the place where I do fieldwork.
