Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface 1
4. G. L. Bursill-Hall: List of Publications 1954–1980 7
5. ‘Verbum cordis’ 13
6. “Can I Speak More Clearly than I Understand?” 29
7. ‘Distinguo’ 39
8. Is ‘canis currit’ ungrammatical? 53
9. Universal Grammar according to Some 12th-century Grammarians 69
10. Two Medieval Critics of Traditional Grammar 85
11. “Legere est agere” 109
12. On Some 12th and 13th Century Doctrines of Restriction 131
13. Albert the Great on the Semantics of the Categories of Substance, Quantity, and Quality 145
14. The Teaching of Latin as a Second Language in the 12th Century 159
15. Adam Wodeham on the Meaning of Declarative Sentences 177
16. Occam et les démonstratifs 189
17. Can Constructions Be Construed? 201
18. Monolingualism and Multilingualism in the 14th Century 211
19. “Each Man's Ass Is not Everybody's Ass” 221
20. Functional Syntax in Medieval Europe 231
21. Richard Lavenham and the Cambridge Logic 241
22. William of Sherwood's Treatise on Obligations 249
23. Medieval Linguistic Thought 265
24. Supplementary References to Contemporary Authors in Linguistics and Philosophy and Other Secondary Sources 297
25. Index of Manuscripts 300
26. Index Nominum 301
27. Index Rerum 310