Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. List of Participants xiii
5. Conference Committees xxi
6. Conference Programme xxiii
7. Opening Address 1
8. The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatus Commentaries 7
9. Speculative Lexicography 17
10. Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation 27
11. On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of Transitivity 39
12. Jean Charles Thiebault (de) Laveaux 49
13. The First Grammar of Frisian (1681) 59
14. Latinisme ou gallicisme? 73
15. The Hibernian Connection 85
16. Harmonic Dictionaries and Grammars in Semitic Linguistics 103
17. A Grammar without a Tradition? 113
18. Étude historiographique des Manières de Langage 123
19. L'Ordre Naturel and Charles Batteux 135
20. Grammaire normative/grammaire descriptive dans la linguistique espagnole du XVIIe siècle 145
21. How to “Improve” a Language 157
22. Lichtenberg on Language and Reason 169
23. John Wallis’ Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653) 183
24. Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition 191
25. Animal Language 203
26. The “Poznań School” of Structural Linguistics 213
27. Salomon Strieker's Motor Theory of Language 227
28. Victor Henry et les lois phon(ét)iques 237
29. The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas’ Theory of Phonetics 251
30. The Beginning and Development of Persian Syntactic Descriptions 261
31. Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries 269
32. Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language 279
33. “Maschine” vs. “Organismus” 291
34. Zur Geschichtsschreibung der Sprechakttheorie 309
35. Linguistics vs. Philology in an 1864 Student Paper by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay 319
36. Abstracts 329
37. Index Linguarum 367
38. Index Nominum 369
39. Index Rerum 380