Anglist

See also: anglist

English

Etymology

From German Anglist, from Medieval Latin Anglia (“England”) + German -ist (“-ist”).

Noun

Anglist (plural Anglists)

1. Synonym of Anglicist.
   • 1888 January 1, The Journal of Education, a Monthly Record and Review, volume X, London: […] William Rice, […], page 32, column 2:

     Most Anglists, it appears, in Germany conceive that they have done their duty if they have studied thoroughly Gothic, German, and English; but they are warned that no one can pretend to be a serious student of English who has not mastered the Old Norse and made himself acquainted generally with the Scandinavian languages, besides possessing a competent knowledge of comparative grammar and of Sanskrit.

   • 1939, The Slavonic and East European Review, volume 18, page 72:

     Dyboski, the most eminent of Polish Anglists, who was twice lent to us for long periods, was from the first a heart-to-heart colleague.

   • 1990, American Notes Queries, page 46:

     While structuralists verge on re-writing the records, Anglists sometimes retreat behind the texts into a determined profession of linguistic agnosticism.

   • 1990, Flor Aarts, Theo van Els, editors, Contemporary Dutch Linguistics, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 27:

     All we can say is that the leading role that Dutch Anglists used to play in the description of English grammar has been taken over by native grammarians and this is as it should be.

Related terms

• Anglistics