Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ introduction ix
5. Part I. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
6. What do we talk about, when we talk about the history of linguistics? 3
7. On the concept of grammatical tradition and its application to linguistic studies in Brazil 17
8. The history of the concept of lexicography 31
9. The relation of gesture to thought and language 43
10. Part II. Antiquity and Middle Ages
11. The ancient Greek and Byzantine notion of dialektos 55
12. On the typology of ancient grammars 69
13. L’interjection dans la tradition grammaticale latine, de l’Antiquité à l’Humanisme 83
14. Classifications of words in ancient Sanskrit grammars 97
15. Part III. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century Works
16. Notas sobre la difusión en Portugal del Libellus de constructione octo partium orationis (Londres 1513) durante la primera mitad del siglo XVI 113
17. Study of the dialogues in the Sprachbücher by Juan Ángel de Zumaran (fl. 1617–1634) 125
18. Models of language and mankind in the milieu of the ‘Idéologues’ 139
19. Degérando’s three prize essays and the shift in linguistic thought at the turn of the 19th century 149
20. Part IV. Nineteenth to Twentieth Century Studies
21. Anton Marty’s philosophy of language and his dialogue with linguists 163
22. Voices from the field 177
23. Saussure et la temporalité 191
24. Compléments indirects et circonstanciels dans la grammaire française au cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle 205
25. Poétique saussurienne, poétique jakobsonienne 219
26. A first history of Functional Grammar 233
27. Polysemy in 19th century linguistic studies in Chile 247
28. Presupposition and implicitness in the 20th century 257
29. Name index 269
30. Subject index 275