Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Forward ix
4. ICHOLS VII Selection Committee xi
5. Conference Programme xiii
6. I. Translating Ancient Grammatical Texts
7. A Round-Table Discussion 3
8. II. Classical and Medieval
9. King Alfred's approach to the study of Latin 15
10. Notions of compounding in Priscian's Institutiones 23
11. Time, the verb and Albertus Magnus 31
12. The relevance of the discussion of the nature of signs in ancient scepticism 41
13. From French-Latin to Latin-French 51
14. On the object-language/metalanguage distinction in St Augustine's works 65
15. On the metrical Priscian Major 79
16. III. Seventeenth Century
17. Onomasiological dictionaries (900-1700) 89
18. Substantial vs. relational analogy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century linguistic thought 105
19. Leibniz on rational grammar 113
20. The semantics of Johann Alsted 123
21. The 'Generall Grammer of Orientall Tongues' and universal language schemes in 17th-century Britain 131
22. Interchange or influence 143
23. 'An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language' (1668) 153
24. IV. Eighteenth Century
25. Diversity of human languages and universals of thought 163
26. 'A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced than any that has yet Appeared' 175
27. Charles Bertram's 'Royal Danish-English Grammar' 183
28. Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) and the science of language 193
29. Language for everyone 205
30. V. Nineteenth Century
31. La philosophie linguistique de Maine de Brian et la nuissance en France de la psychologie scientifique 217
32. The teaching of Spanish as a foreign language at the University of Oxford 227
33. Is a linguistic theory needed for successful applied linguistics? 233
34. The works of Ernst Wilhelm Brücke (1819-1892) and Johann N. Czermak (1828-1873) 241
35. 'Orientalism' and the development of the Volney Prize in Linguistics 257
36. The pragmatic triangle 267
37. "Ich erwarte mit Ungeduld das absolute Ende meiner elenden Existenz..." 277
38. Gustav Gerber and 'Kantian Linguistics' 289
39. VI. Twentieth Century
40. Saussure's 'anagrams' 299
41. Predecessors of cognitive semantics and speech act theory? 307
42. Mais que fait Bar-Hillel quand "le soleil siffle"? 321
43. La mécanisation de dictionnaire dans les premières expériences de traduction automatique (1948-1960) 331
44. The first Galician Academy Dictionary and its theoretical background 341
45. Scholars in schools 355
46. Abstracts 361
47. Contents of Volume One 373
48. Index of Names 377
49. Index of Topics 382