On the typology of ancient grammars
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Anneli Luhtala
Abstract
In my study I explore three approaches to noun declensions in ancient grammar. The most popular ancient grammar, Donatus’ Ars minor, adheres to a purely descriptive method, which consists in quoting a chosen headword and giving its full morphological paradigm. The second approach presents the case forms as being based on the genitive singular endings of the five declensions. I will argue that these two approaches were the outcome of the third approach, the regulae-method, which originated in the study of analogy in the early stages of Latin grammar. This heuristic method was originally designed as a discovery procedure for native speakers to account for the facts of their mother tongue.
Abstract
In my study I explore three approaches to noun declensions in ancient grammar. The most popular ancient grammar, Donatus’ Ars minor, adheres to a purely descriptive method, which consists in quoting a chosen headword and giving its full morphological paradigm. The second approach presents the case forms as being based on the genitive singular endings of the five declensions. I will argue that these two approaches were the outcome of the third approach, the regulae-method, which originated in the study of analogy in the early stages of Latin grammar. This heuristic method was originally designed as a discovery procedure for native speakers to account for the facts of their mother tongue.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments vii
- Editors’ introduction ix
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Part I. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
- What do we talk about, when we talk about the history of linguistics? 3
- On the concept of grammatical tradition and its application to linguistic studies in Brazil 17
- The history of the concept of lexicography 31
- The relation of gesture to thought and language 43
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Part II. Antiquity and Middle Ages
- The ancient Greek and Byzantine notion of dialektos 55
- On the typology of ancient grammars 69
- L’interjection dans la tradition grammaticale latine, de l’Antiquité à l’Humanisme 83
- Classifications of words in ancient Sanskrit grammars 97
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Part III. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century Works
- Notas sobre la difusión en Portugal del Libellus de constructione octo partium orationis (Londres 1513) durante la primera mitad del siglo XVI 113
- Study of the dialogues in the Sprachbücher by Juan Ángel de Zumaran (fl. 1617–1634) 125
- Models of language and mankind in the milieu of the ‘Idéologues’ 139
- Degérando’s three prize essays and the shift in linguistic thought at the turn of the 19th century 149
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Part IV. Nineteenth to Twentieth Century Studies
- Anton Marty’s philosophy of language and his dialogue with linguists 163
- Voices from the field 177
- Saussure et la temporalité 191
- Compléments indirects et circonstanciels dans la grammaire française au cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle 205
- Poétique saussurienne, poétique jakobsonienne 219
- A first history of Functional Grammar 233
- Polysemy in 19th century linguistic studies in Chile 247
- Presupposition and implicitness in the 20th century 257
- Name index 269
- Subject index 275
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments vii
- Editors’ introduction ix
-
Part I. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
- What do we talk about, when we talk about the history of linguistics? 3
- On the concept of grammatical tradition and its application to linguistic studies in Brazil 17
- The history of the concept of lexicography 31
- The relation of gesture to thought and language 43
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Part II. Antiquity and Middle Ages
- The ancient Greek and Byzantine notion of dialektos 55
- On the typology of ancient grammars 69
- L’interjection dans la tradition grammaticale latine, de l’Antiquité à l’Humanisme 83
- Classifications of words in ancient Sanskrit grammars 97
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Part III. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century Works
- Notas sobre la difusión en Portugal del Libellus de constructione octo partium orationis (Londres 1513) durante la primera mitad del siglo XVI 113
- Study of the dialogues in the Sprachbücher by Juan Ángel de Zumaran (fl. 1617–1634) 125
- Models of language and mankind in the milieu of the ‘Idéologues’ 139
- Degérando’s three prize essays and the shift in linguistic thought at the turn of the 19th century 149
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Part IV. Nineteenth to Twentieth Century Studies
- Anton Marty’s philosophy of language and his dialogue with linguists 163
- Voices from the field 177
- Saussure et la temporalité 191
- Compléments indirects et circonstanciels dans la grammaire française au cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle 205
- Poétique saussurienne, poétique jakobsonienne 219
- A first history of Functional Grammar 233
- Polysemy in 19th century linguistic studies in Chile 247
- Presupposition and implicitness in the 20th century 257
- Name index 269
- Subject index 275
