Abstract
George Henrik Werndly’s work in Malay grammar, literature, and Bible translation can be understood and explained in the context of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century natural philosophy, especially natural philosophy in the spirit of Newton. The Dutch natural philosopher Lambert ten Kate, who was deeply influenced by Isaac Newton, is one of the main channels through which the ideas of the natural philosophy tradition reached Werndly. Ten Kate had applied the methodologies of natural philosophy to linguistics in ways that inspired Werndly to follow the same approach in his grammar of Malay.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 214-232 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | The Bible Translator |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
Keywords
- natural philosophy, Werndly, Malay Bible
- first Malay grammar