Hans Arens

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hans Arens is involved.

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Aristotle's Theory of Language and its Tradition: Texts from 500 to 1750, sel., transl. and commentary by Hans Arens

Hans Arens

This volume contains a fragment from Aristotle’s Peri Hermeneias [16a1–17a7], with a translation into English and a commentary. This fragment is crucial to the understanding of Aristotle’s thinking about language. It is followed by (translations of) commentaries on Aristotle’s text by scholars… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 29] 1984. v, 532 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Arens, Hans 1991 Anthologie de la linguistique allemande au XIXe siècle. Hrg. von Brigitte Nerlich Historiographia Linguistica 18:2/3, pp. 388–393 | Review

Arens, Hans 1990 ‘De Magistro’: Analyse eines Dialogs von Augustinus De Ortu Grammaticae: Studies in medieval grammar and linguistic theory in memory of Jan Pinborg, Bursill-Hall, Geoffrey L., Sten Ebbesen and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 17–34 | Article

Arens, Hans 1980 ‘Verbum cordis’: Zur Sprachphilosophie des Mittel-alters Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980, Koerner, E.F.K. †, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Robert H. Robins (eds.), pp. 13–28 | Article

Arens, Hans 1980 ‘Verbum Cordis’: Zur Sprachphilosophie des Mittelalters Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2, pp. 13–27 | Article

Summary In the European Middle Ages, what is generally called philosophy of language is represented by a philosophy of the word, not only the scholastic one of the word as ‘part of speech’, developed by the Modistae, but from the 4th century onward, a patristic doctrine of the human word as… read more

Arens, Hans 1979 Platon über die Sprache: Ein Kommentar zum Kratylos. Von Jetske C. Rijlaarsdam Historiographia Linguistica 6:3, pp. 390–401 | Review

Arens, Hans 1977 Zur Neueren Geschichtsschreibung der Linguistik Historiographia Linguistica 4:3, pp. 319–382 | Review article

SUMMARYThe most widely accepted definition of 'ergative' is in terms of a grammatical case, namely, the subject of a transitive verb, wherein that case is opposed to a second case, the 'absolutive' ('nominative'), which includes both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a… read more