Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of contents vii
4. Editor's Preface XI
5. I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After
6. The Liber Sex Principiorum, a Twelfth-Century Treatise in Descriptive Metaphysics 3
7. La théorie de la signification des termes communs chez maître Siger de Brabant 13
8. A Medieval Exercise in Language Planning 23
9. Les débuts de l'étude du langage en Irlande 35
10. Logical Structures in Sanctius' Linguistic Theory 45
11. The Scholastic Background to Locke's Theory of Language 59
12. II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas
13. Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Church Slavonic Grammars 71
14. Sir Thomas Smith's ‘De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione Dialogus’ (1568) 87
15. Principles of English Lexicography in the Early Seventeenth Century 94
16. Two Port-Royal Theories of Natural Order 102
17. George Dalgarno on ‘Ars Signorum’ and Wilkins' ‘Essay’ 113
18. Le prototype défiguré 123
19. III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany
20. The Eighteenth-Century Debate concerning Linearity or Simultaneity in the Deep Structure of Language 141
21. The Language of Nature 155
22. ‘Les vrais principes de la langue françoise’ de l'abbé Girard devant la critique du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours 175
23. From Condillac to Condorcet 187
24. Dumarsais et le lieu des tropes 199
25. Aspects institutionnels et théoriques de l'auto-nomisation des recherches linguistiques en Grande Bretagne 1780-1800 211
26. IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics
27. Flexion et racine 235
28. Uniformitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics 249
29. Linguistique 1908 257
30. The Definition of ‘Sentence’ and John Ries' Theory 271
31. On the History of the Axiomatic Method in Linguistics 297
32. V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West
33. How Proto-Chinese Was Reconstructed 311
34. Flexion, dérivation et Panini 323
35. Hellenistic Education and the Origin of Arabic Grammar 333
36. Classificatory Structuralism in Medieval Arabic Grammars 345
37. The Earliest Comparisons of Hebrew with Aramaic and Arabic 355
38. VI. Supplementa
39. The Interdisciplinary Relevance of Folk Linguistics 381
40. The Concept of ‘Scientific’ in the Development of the Language Sciences 395
41. Postscript 403
42. Index Nominum 407
43. Index Rerum 417