11. John Wilkins' “Essay” (1668)

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Location of sources vi
4. Preface to the first edition vii
5. Preface to the second edition xi
6. Further reading xv
7. I. Applied Linguistics
8. 1. Problems of Language-Teaching 3
9. 2. Joseph Webbe: Some seventeenth-century views on language-teaching and the nature of meaning 15
10. 3. John Brinsley: 17th-century pioneer in applied linguistics 33
11. 4. Early Seventeenth-Century Punctuation as a Guide to Sentence-Structure 47
12. II. Grammatical Theory
13. 5. Pre-Cartesian Linguistics (On the occasion of Noam Chomsky's “Cartesian Linguistics”) 63
14. 6. James Shirley and Some Problems of 17th-Century Grammar 87
15. 7. ‘Philosophical’ Grammar in John Wilkins's “Essay” 97
16. III. Universal Language
17. 8. Language-Planning in Seventeenth-Century England; its context and aims 129
18. 9. The evolution of Dalgarno's “Ars signorum” (1661) 157
19. 10. Cave Beck: A seventeenth-century Ipswich schoolmaster and his “Universal Character” 177
20. 11. John Wilkins' “Essay” (1668) 191
21. Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1957-1987 207
22. Index of Authors 215