From classical to contemporary linguistics
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From classical to contemporary linguistics
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 3 . Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 95 . History of linguistics 1996 : selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS VII) Oxford,
J. Benjamins, c1999
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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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Forward
- 2. ICHOLS VII Selection Committee
- 3. Conference Programme
- 4. I. Translating Ancient Grammatical Texts
- 5. A Round-Table Discussion (by Swiggers, Pierre)
- 6. II. Classical and Medieval
- 7. King Alfred's approach to the study of Latin (by Atherton, Mark)
- 8. Notions of compounding in Priscian's Institutiones (by Chapman, Don)
- 9. Time, the verb and Albertus Magnus (by Kelly, L.G.)
- 10. The relevance of the discussion of the nature of signs in ancient scepticism (by Marcondes de Souza Filho, Danilo)
- 11. From French-Latin to Latin-French: Reconstructing a medieval dictionary source (by Merrilees, Brian)
- 12. On the object-language/metalanguage distinction in St Augustine's works: De Dialectica and De Magistro (by Munteanu, Eugen)
- 13. On the metrical Priscian Major: A methodological dilemma (by Percival, W. Keith)
- 14. III. Seventeenth Century
- 15. Onomasiological dictionaries (900-1700): Their tradition and their linguistic status (by Hullen, Werner)
- 16. Substantial vs. relational analogy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century linguistic thought (by Isermann, Michael)
- 17. Leibniz on rational grammar (by Maat, Jaap)
- 18. The semantics of Johann Alsted (by McMahon, William E.)
- 19. The 'Generall Grammer of Orientall Tongues' and universal language schemes in 17th-century Britain: The contribution of Christian Ravius (by Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith)
- 20. Interchange or influence: Grotius' early linguistic ideas (by Wal, Marijke J. van der)
- 21. 'An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language' (1668): Text/contexts (by Wilding, Nick)
- 22. IV. Eighteenth Century
- 23. Diversity of human languages and universals of thought: An eighteenth-century debate in the Berlin Academy (by Hassler, Gerda)
- 24. 'A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced than any that has yet Appeared': English as a 'perfect' language in eighteenth-century linguistic thought (by Lauzon, Matthew J.)
- 25. Charles Bertram's 'Royal Danish-English Grammar': The linguistic work of an eighteenth-century fraud (by Linn, Andrew R.)
- 26. Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) and the science of language: A Dutch linguist between two worlds (by Noordegraaf, Jan)
- 27. Language for everyone: Eighteenth-century female grammarians, Elstob, Fisher and beyond (by Smith, Robin)
- 28. V. Nineteenth Century
- 29. La philosophie linguistique de Maine de Brian et la nuissance en France de la psychologie scientifique (by Chirico, Donata)
- 30. 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) (by Gallardo, Matilde)
- 31. Is a linguistic theory needed for successful applied linguistics?: The Estonian experience (by Hint, Mati)
- 32. The works of Ernst Wilhelm Brucke (1819-1892) and Johann N. Czermak (1828-1873): Landmarks in the history of phonetics (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.)
- 33. 'Orientalism' and the development of the Volney Prize in Linguistics (by Leopold, Joan)
- 34. The pragmatic triangle: Gardiner, Buhler and Reichling on the word and the sentence (by Nerlich, Brigitte)
- 35. "Ich erwarte mit Ungeduld das absolute Ende meiner elenden Existenz...": The 'image' of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay in his correspondence with Hugo Schuchardt (by Seldeslachts, Herman)
- 36. Gustav Gerber and 'Kantian Linguistics': Presuppositions of thought and linguistic use (by Vonk, Frank J.M.)
- 37. VI. Twentieth Century
- 38. Saussure's 'anagrams': Blunder or paralanguage? (by Christy, T. Craig)
- 39. Predecessors of cognitive semantics and speech act theory? (by Elffers-van Ketel, Els)
- 40. Mais que fait Bar-Hillel quand "le soleil siffle"? (by Godart-Wendling, Beatrice)
- 41. La mecanisation de dictionnaire dans les premieres experiences de traduction automatique (1948-1960) (by Leon, Jacqueline)
- 42. The first Galician Academy Dictionary and its theoretical background (by Salgado, Benigno F.)
- 43. Scholars in schools (by Stuurman, Frits)
- 44. Abstracts
- 45. Contents of Volume One
- 46. Index of Names
- 47. Index of Topics
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