Valérie Raby
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valérie Raby is involved.
Articles
2020 La phrase grammaticale moderne: Retour sur la question des origines History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie and Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.), pp. 35–48 | Chapter
Since the 1970’s, history of linguistics has been called upon to locate the sources of a deceptively familiar notion: the grammatical sentence. In this paper, we first review the main hypotheses regarding the birth act of the notion, we then question the relationship between two moments that… read more
2011 La phrase expliquée aux sourds-muets: Remarques sur la syntaxe chiffrée de l’abbé Sicard History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 277–288 | Article
Abbé Sicard is the inventor of a highly uncommon method for syntactic parsing, originally intended for his “deaf-mute” students. The purpose of this method was to lay bare the logical structure of a sentence by means of a cipher mapping its constituents to numerical values. This “numerical… read more
2007 Une écriture de l'histoire: La Lettre à M. Pinglin sur l'histoire de la science grammaticale 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. 169–182 | Article
Historians agree that the first treatises about the history of linguistics emerged during the last decade of the 19th century, with the works of D. Thiébault (1793, “Lettre à M. Pinglin sur l’histoire de la science grammaticale”) and F. Thurot (1796, “Tableau des progrès de la science… read more