Godfrey of Fontaine's abridgement of Boethius of Dacia's Modi significandi, sive Quaestiones super Priscianum maiorem

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Godfrey of Fontaine's abridgement of Boethius of Dacia's Modi significandi, sive Quaestiones super Priscianum maiorem

an edition with introduction and translation by A. Charlene Senape McDermott

(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series III . Studies in the history of linguistics ; v. 22)

Benjamins, 1980

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Modi significandi

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Modi significandi

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Text in English and Latin; notes in English

Bibliography: p. 17-20

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Apollonius Dyscolus was the first formal syntactician in Graeco-Roman linguistics. He considered the nature of language to be logical and rule-governed, and assumed an underlying structure for all levels of language. It might be said that from the work of his predecessors, he extracted syntax. This volume contains an English translation of - mainly - Uhlig's 1910 edition of De Constructione Libri Quattor (Peri Suntaxeos), with commentary, an introduction, and an article on Apollonius Dyscolus and the Origins of Deep Structure.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Acknowledgments
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Apollonius Dyscolus and the Origins of Deep Structure
  • 4. Book I: The Definite Article
  • The Relative Pronoun
  • 5. Book II: Pronouns
  • 6. Book III: On Solecism
  • Verbs and Their: Arguments
  • Participles
  • 7. Book IV: Prepositions
  • Adverbs
  • 8. Book IVa: Adverbs (continued)
  • 9. References
  • 10. Index

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