History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics

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History of Linguistics 1996

Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics

Edited by: David Cram , Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1999

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Volume 95 | Studies in the History of the Language Sciences

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This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion of problems in translating ancient grammatical texts. The remainder of the volume is arranged in chronological sections, with contributions as follows. II. Classical and Medieval; III. Seventeenth Century; IV. Eighteenth Century; V. Nineteenth Century; VI. Twentieth Century.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Forward Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ICHOLS VII Selection Committee Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Conference Programme Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
I. Translating Ancient Grammatical Texts
A Round-Table Discussion Pierre Swiggers and Alfons Wouters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
II. Classical and Medieval
King Alfred's approach to the study of Latin Mark Atherton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Notions of compounding in Priscian's Institutiones Don Chapman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Time, the verb and Albertus Magnus L.G. Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
The relevance of the discussion of the nature of signs in ancient scepticism Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
From French-Latin to Latin-French Reconstructing a medieval dictionary source Brian Merrilees and William Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
On the object-language/metalanguage distinction in St Augustine's works De Dialectica and De Magistro Eugen Munteanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
On the metrical Priscian Major A methodological dilemma W. Keith Percival Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
III. Seventeenth Century
Onomasiological dictionaries (900-1700) Their tradition and their linguistic status Werner Hüllen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Substantial vs. relational analogy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century linguistic thought Michael Isermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Leibniz on rational grammar Jaap Maat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
The semantics of Johann Alsted William E. McMahon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
The 'Generall Grammer of Orientall Tongues' and universal language schemes in 17th-century Britain The contribution of Christian Ravius Judith Olszowy-Schlanger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Interchange or influence Grotius' early linguistic ideas Marijke J. van der Wal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
'An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language' (1668) Text/contexts Nick Wilding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
IV. Eighteenth Century
Diversity of human languages and universals of thought An eighteenth-century debate in the Berlin Academy Gerda Haßler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
'A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced than any that has yet Appeared' English as a 'perfect' language in eighteenth-century linguistic thought Matthew J. Lauzon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Charles Bertram's 'Royal Danish-English Grammar' The linguistic work of an eighteenth-century fraud Andrew R. Linn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) and the science of language A Dutch linguist between two worlds Jan Noordegraaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Language for everyone Eighteenth-century female grammarians, Elstob, Fisher and beyond Robin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
V. Nineteenth Century
La philosophie linguistique de Maine de Brian et la nuissance en France de la psychologie scientifique Donata Chiricò Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
The teaching of Spanish as a foreign language at the University of Oxford Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira and his 'Practical Spanish, a Grammar of the Spanish Language' (1902) Matilde Gallardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Is a linguistic theory needed for successful applied linguistics? The Estonian experience Mati Hint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
The works of Ernst Wilhelm Brücke (1819-1892) and Johann N. Czermak (1828-1873) Landmarks in the history of phonetics Kurt R. Jankowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
'Orientalism' and the development of the Volney Prize in Linguistics Joan Leopold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
The pragmatic triangle Gardiner, Bühler and Reichling on the word and the sentence Brigitte Nerlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
"Ich erwarte mit Ungeduld das absolute Ende meiner elenden Existenz..." The 'image' of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay in his correspondence with Hugo Schuchardt Herman Seldeslachts and Pierre Swiggers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Gustav Gerber and 'Kantian Linguistics' Presuppositions of thought and linguistic use Frank J.M. Vonk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
VI. Twentieth Century
Saussure's 'anagrams' Blunder or paralanguage? T. Craig Christy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Predecessors of cognitive semantics and speech act theory? Els Elffers-van Ketel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Mais que fait Bar-Hillel quand "le soleil siffle"? Béatrice Godart-Wendling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
La mécanisation de dictionnaire dans les premières expériences de traduction automatique (1948-1960) Jacqueline Léon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
The first Galician Academy Dictionary and its theoretical background Benigno F. Salgado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
Scholars in schools Frits Stuurman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
Abstracts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Contents of Volume One Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Index of Topics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	382

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