2. Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Editor's Foreword v
3. Table of contents vii
4. I. Surveys of 16th and 17th Century Linguistic Scholarship
5. 1. Effort and Achievement in 17th-Century British Linguistics 3
6. 2. Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship 31
7. 3. Views on Meaning in 16th-Century England 55
8. 4. Language Politics of the 16th and 17th-Century English Church 77
9. II. On Universal and Individual Traits of Language
10. 5. William Bedell and the Universal Language Movement in 17th-Century Ireland 99
11. 6. Wh- and Yes/No Questions 112
12. 7. Nathaniel Chamberlain and his Tractatus de Literis et Lingua Philosophica (1679) 131
13. III. Language Learning and Language Instruction
14. 8. Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics 143
15. 9. The Study of Foreign Languages in 17th-Century England 173
16. 10. Arabists and Linguists in England in the 17th Century 195
17. 11. Missionary Linguistics in 17th-Century Ireland 212
18. 12. Bathsua Makin (1600–c.1673) 239
19. Appendix: List of Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1988–1996 261
20. Index of Personal Names 267
21. Index of Subjects, Terms and Languages 273