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Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought
Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980
This volume presents a set of papers on linguistic thought in the Middle Ages. It is complemented by a comprehensive bibliography and indices. The papers in this volume appeared earlier in Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2 (1980).
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 26] 1980. vi, 321 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- PrefaceRobert H. Robins | p. 1
- G. L. Bursill-Hall: List of Publications 1954–1980E.F.K. Koerner | p. 7
- ‘Verbum cordis’: Zur Sprachphilosophie des Mittel-altersHans Arens | p. 13
- “Can I Speak More Clearly than I Understand?”: A problem of religious language in Henry of Ghent, Duns Scotus, and OckhamE. Jennifer Ashworth | p. 29
- ‘Distinguo’: Modi significandi and covert case rolesFrancis P. Dinneen | p. 39
- Is ‘canis currit’ ungrammatical? Grammar in Elenchi commentariesSten Ebbesen | p. 53
- Universal Grammar according to Some 12th-century GrammariansKarin Margareta Fredborg | p. 69
- Two Medieval Critics of Traditional GrammarDesmond Paul Henry | p. 85
- “Legere est agere”: The first quaestio of the First Quaestiones-Collection in the MS Oxford CCC 250Corneille H. Kneepkens | p. 109
- On Some 12th and 13th Century Doctrines of RestrictionAlain de Libera | p. 131
- Albert the Great on the Semantics of the Categories of Substance, Quantity, and QualityWilliam E. McMahon | p. 145
- The Teaching of Latin as a Second Language in the 12th CenturyJames J. Murphy | p. 159
- Adam Wodeham on the Meaning of Declarative SentencesGabriel Nuchelmans | p. 177
- Occam et les démonstratifsClaude Panaccio | p. 189
- Can Constructions Be Construed? A problem in medieval syntactical theoryJan Pinborg | p. 201
- Monolingualism and Multilingualism in the 14th CenturyMichael Richter | p. 211
- “Each Man's Ass Is not Everybody's Ass”: On an important item in 13th-century semanticsLambertus M. de Rijk | p. 221
- Functional Syntax in Medieval EuropeRobert H. Robins | p. 231
- Richard Lavenham and the Cambridge LogicPaul Vincent Spade | p. 241
- William of Sherwood's Treatise on ObligationsEleonore Stump | p. 249
- Medieval Linguistic Thought: A comprehensive bibliographyE.F.K. Koerner | p. 265
- Index of ManuscriptsHans-Josef Niederehe | p. 300
- Index NominumHans-Josef Niederehe | p. 301
- Index RerumHans-Josef Niederehe | p. 310