Jac. Van Ginneken
Jacobus Joannes Antonius (Jac.) van Ginneken Society of Jesus, S.J. (21 April 1877, Oudenbosch - 22 October 1945, Nijmegen) was a Dutch linguist, priest and Jesuit, professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen since its start in 1923. He taught Dutch Language and Dutch Literature, comparative linguistics of the Indo-european languages, and Sanskrit. Ideas Starting with his ''Grondbeginselen van de psychologische taalwetenschap'', based on which he wrote his dissertation ''Principes de linguistique psychologique'', van Ginneken worked on developing a psychological foundation for linguistics and language. Three substantial parts of his convictions are presented in the following: Firstly, van Ginneken opposed the prevalence of the neogrammarians’ methods in linguistics and was a proponent for a psychological approach to linguistics in a more synchronic way, thereby allowing, he thought, to gain an extended view of the diachronic development of language as well. Secondly, lan ...
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