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Progress in Linguistic Historiography
Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978
Editor
This volume presents a selection of revised papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Ottawa 1978). These have been organized under the following headings: I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After; II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas; III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany; IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics; V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West; and, VI. Supplementa: Beyond the History of Linguistics.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 20] 1980. xiv, 421 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. V–vi
- Editor's Preface | pp. XI–xiv
- I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After
- The Liber Sex Principiorum, a Twelfth-Century Treatise in Descriptive MetaphysicsWilliam E. McMahon | p. 3
- La théorie de la signification des termes communs chez maître Siger de BrabantBernardo Carlos Bazán | p. 13
- A Medieval Exercise in Language Planning: Classical Early Modern IrishBrian ó Cuív | p. 23
- Les débuts de l'étude du langage en IrlandeAnders Ahlqvist | p. 35
- Logical Structures in Sanctius' Linguistic TheoryManuel Breva-Claramonte | p. 45
- The Scholastic Background to Locke's Theory of LanguageE. Jennifer Ashworth | p. 59
- II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas
- Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Church Slavonic GrammarsConstantine Bida† | p. 71
- Sir Thomas Smith's ‘De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione Dialogus’ (1568)Cesare G. Cecioni | p. 87
- Principles of English Lexicography in the Early Seventeenth CenturyTetsuro Hayashi | p. 94
- Two Port-Royal Theories of Natural OrderRichard Ogle | p. 102
- George Dalgarno on ‘Ars Signorum’ and Wilkins' ‘Essay’David Cram | p. 113
- Le prototype défiguré: L'idée scythique et la France gauloise (XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles)Daniel Droixhe | p. 123
- III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany
- The Eighteenth-Century Debate concerning Linearity or Simultaneity in the Deep Structure of Language: From Buffier to GottschedAldo Scaglione | p. 141
- The Language of Nature: Inquiries into a concept of 18th-century British linguisticsRudiger Schreyer | p. 155
- ‘Les vrais principes de la langue françoise’ de l'abbé Girard devant la critique du XVIIIe siècle à nos joursBarbara Kaltz | p. 175
- From Condillac to Condorcet: The algebra of historyJulie T. Andresen | p. 187
- Dumarsais et le lieu des tropesSylvian Auroux | p. 199
- Aspects institutionnels et théoriques de l'auto-nomisation des recherches linguistiques en Grande Bretagne 1780-1800Patrice Bergheaud | p. 211
- IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics
- Flexion et racine: Trois étapes de leur constitution: J.C. Adelung, F. Schlegel, F. BoppLouis-Jean Rousseau | p. 235
- Uniformitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics: Implications for a reassessment of the neogrammarian sound-law doctrineT. Craig Christy | p. 249
- Linguistique 1908: Un débat-clef de linguistique géographique et une question des sources saussuriennesRudolf Engler | p. 257
- The Definition of ‘Sentence’ and John Ries' TheoryLeo Zawadowski | p. 271
- On the History of the Axiomatic Method in LinguisticsHans-Heinrich Lieb | p. 297
- V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West
- How Proto-Chinese Was ReconstructedMatthew Y. Chen | p. 311
- Flexion, dérivation et PaniniRajendra Singh and Alan Ford | p. 323
- Hellenistic Education and the Origin of Arabic GrammarKees Versteegh | p. 333
- Classificatory Structuralism in Medieval Arabic Grammars: az-Zajjāji's 10th-century ‘The Sentence’Loraine K. Obler | p. 345
- The Earliest Comparisons of Hebrew with Aramaic and ArabicDavid Téné | p. 355
- VI. Supplementa: Beyond the History of Linguistics
- The Interdisciplinary Relevance of Folk LinguisticsRanko Bugarski | p. 381
- The Concept of ‘Scientific’ in the Development of the Language SciencesRoger Van de Velde | p. 395
- PostscriptRobert H. Robins | p. 403
- Index Nominum | pp. 407–416
- Index Rerum | pp. 417–421
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