Manuel Breva-Claramonte

List of John Benjamins publications in which Manuel Breva-Claramonte is involved.

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Sanctius' Theory of Language: A contribution to the history of Renaissance linguistics

Manuel Breva-Claramonte

This volume presents the main tenets of Sanctius’ linguistic theory and explores the questions raised by Robin Lakoff in her 1969 review of the Grammaire générale et raisonnée (Port Royal). Part I surveys earlier developments in the study of language, in particular the Graeco-Roman and Medieval… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 27] 1982. viii, 294 pp.

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 2007 The European linguistic tradition and early missionary grammars in Central and South America History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 236–251 | Article

The work of early missionary linguists in Central and South America received some criticism in the 19th and 20th centuries. This paper seeks to show that such comments were unfair in that they lacked proper historical contextualization. The first part focuses on the educational background of early… read more

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 2003 SEHL 2001: Estudios de historiografía lingüística. Actas del III Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística, Vigo 7–10 de febrero de 2000. Ed. by Miguel Ángel Esparza, Benigno Fernández & Hans-Josef Niederehe Historiographia Linguistica 30:1/2, pp. 226–230 | Review

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 2003 Specialized lexicography for learning Spanish in six-teenth-century Europe History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14–19 September 1999, Fontenay-St.Cloud, Auroux, Sylvian (ed.), pp. 83–96 | Article

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 2001 Data Collection and Data Analysis in Lorenzo Hévas: Laying the ground for modern linguistic typology History of Linguistics in Spain/Historia de la Lingüística en España: Volume II, Koerner, E.F.K. † and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 265–280 | Article

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1999 Morphosyntactic analysis exotic languages in Lorenzo Hervás (1735-1809) History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 81–90 | Chapter

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1995 Language Teaching in Juan-Luis Vives (1492–1540) History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 137–146 | Article

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1990 Translation in Pedro-Simón Abril's (1530-1600) Teaching Method History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 275–286 | Chapter

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1987 Grammatical Theory in Western Europe, 1500–1700: Trends in Vernacular Grammar I. By G. A[rthur] Padley Historiographia Linguistica 14:3, pp. 389–394 | Review

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1987 A Re-Analysis of Juan-Luis Vives' (1492-1540) ‘Exercitatio Linguae Latinae’ Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 167–178 | Article

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1986 The Semiotic Aspects of Sanctius' Minerva The History of Linguistics in Spain, Quilis Morales, Antonio and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 117–128 | Article

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1984 The semiotic aspects of Sanctius’ Minerva Historiographia Linguistica 11:1/2, pp. 117–127 | Article

The purpose of this paper is to delineate Sanctius’ views on signs. To achieve this goal those passages have been analized in which the author made direct mention of signs as well as those where the reference is implicit. The first part of this study covers the historical background leading to… read more

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1983 Minerve ou les causes de la langue latine. By Franciscus Sanctius. Introduction, traduction et notes par Geneviève Clerico Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 329–335 | Review

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1980 Logical Structures in Sanctius' Linguistic Theory Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 45–58 | Article

Breva-Claramonte, Manuel 1975 Sanctius’ Minerva of 1562 and the Evolution of His Linguistic Theory Historiographia Linguistica 2:1, pp. 49–66 | Article

The 1587 edition of Sanctius’ Minerva was not the first edition: a 1562 version has recently been discovered. This paper outlines Sanctius’ linguistic theory as it is advanced in the earlier version and traces its evolution. Some aspects of Sanctius’ system are briefly considered with relation to… read more