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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
This volume presents a selection of – slightly revised versions – of papers from the third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 1984. The papers are organized under the following headings: I Generalia; II Classical Period; III Medieval Period; IV Renaissance; V 17th Century; VI 18th Century; VII 19th Century, and VIII 20th Century.
Contributors include W. Keith Percival, Aron Dotan, Michael G. Carter, Kees Versteegh, Brian Ó Cuív, Francis P. Dinneen, Manuel Breva-Claramonte, Douglas A. Kibbee, Joseph L. Subbiondo, Rüdiger Schreyer, Marc Wilmet, Robert H. Robins, Jean Rousseau, Ramón Sarmiento, Edward Stankiewicz, Irmengard Rauch, Talbot J. Taylor, Julie Andresen, and many others.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 38] 1987. xxvi, 680 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 April 2011
Published online on 8 April 2011
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Table of Contents
- Foreword | pp. ix–x
- Conference Program | pp. xi–xviii
- List of Participants | pp. xix–xxvi
- I. Generalia
- Stolen Paradigms: Stammbaum to Black BoxCharles Gilman | p. 3
- On the Problem of ‘Influence’ in Linguistic HistoriographyE.F.K. Koerner | p. 13
- Linguistics and EconomicsStephen Muecke | p. 29
- II. Classical Period
- Pāṇini, Language Theories and the Dialectics of GrammarJayant K. Lele and Rajendra Singh | p. 43
- Aristotelian Categorial Theory Viewed as a Theory of Componential SemanticsWilliam E. McMahon | p. 53
- On Priscian's Syntactic Theory: The medieval perspectiveW. Keith Percival | p. 65
- III. Medieval Period
- From the Beginning of Medieval Hebrew-Arabic LexicographyAron Dotan | p. 77
- When Did the Word naḥw Come to Denote Grammar? (Abstract)Michael G. Carter | p. 85
- Marginality in the Arab Grammatical TraditionKees Versteegh | p. 87
- A Medieval Arab Theory of Language AcquisitionMuhammad H. Ibrahim | p. 97
- The Observations of Medieval Irish Scholars on Sandhi Phenomena in IrishBrian ó Cuív | p. 107
- Supposition in Petrus Hispanus' Summulae LogicalesFrancis P. Dinneen | p. 117
- Dante's notion of the vulgare illustre: a reappraisalAngelo Mazzocco | p. 129
- Vernacular Translation and Instruction in Grammar in Fifteenth-Century EnglandRita Copeland | p. 143
- IV. Renaissance
- La Lexicografía española desde los principios hasta el año 1599Hans-Josef Niederehe | p. 157
- A Re-Analysis of Juan-Luis Vives' (1492-1540) ‘Exercitatio Linguae Latinae’Manuel Breva-Claramonte | p. 167
- Bilingual Lexicography in the Renaissance: Palsgrave's English-French Lexicon (1530)Douglas A. Kibbee | p. 179
- John Donne's Moralized Grammar: A study in Renaissance Christian HebraicaEugene D. Hill | p. 189
- V. Seventeenth Century
- What is Mystical Language?Thomas Willard | p. 201
- Ellipsis in Seventeenth-Century English GrammarsRobin Smith | p. 211
- Early New England Missionary LinguisticsStephen A. Guice | p. 223
- Usage and Reason in Seventeenth-Century French Grammar: A fresh look at VaugelasWendy Ayres-Bennett | p. 233
- Style and Utopia: Sprat's demand for a plain style, reconsideredWerner Hüllen | p. 247
- John Wilkins' Theory of Articulatory PhoneticsJoseph L. Subbiondo | p. 263
- John Wilkins and the Development of a Structural SemanticsFredric Dolezal | p. 271
- The Study of the Article in England from Wallis to Horne Tooke, 1653-1798André Joly | p. 283
- VI. Eighteenth Century
- Linguistics Meets Caliban or the Uses of Savagery in 18th-Century Theoretical History of LanguageRudiger Schreyer | p. 301
- Sémantique synonymique: Une contre-rhétorique Condillac et DiderotJ-C. Choul | p. 315
- Une ‘filière française’: La postérité de BeauzéeMarc Wilmet | p. 327
- Die Grundlegung der empirischen Sprachwissenschaft als ‘Wissenschaft am Menschen’Joachim Gessinger | p. 335
- Language Theory, the Institution of Philology and the State: The emergence of philological discourse 1770-1810Robert S. Leventhal | p. 349
- Wilhelm Heinse's Critique of Enlightenment SemioticsLaurence A. Rickels | p. 365
- Language Policy of the East India Company and the Asiatic Society of BengalSatya S. Pachori | p. 377
- Sir William Jones and Applied LinguisticsGarland Cannon | p. 379
- Sir William Jones and Phonetic TranscriptionPeter H. Salus | p. 391
- Language, Ethics and Ideology: Dugald Stewart's ‘Common Sense’ critique of empiricist historical and genetic linguisticsPatrice Bergheaud | p. 399
- VII. Nineteenth Century
- Les grammaires françaises à l’usage des Néerlandophones en Belgique (de 1763 à 1925)Annie Boone | p. 417
- Duponceau and Early Nineteenth-Century LinguisticsRobert H. Robins | p. 435
- The First Uses of the French Word ‘Linguistique’ (1812-1880)Sylvian Auroux | p. 447
- Les trois méthodes de la comparaison chez Wilhelm von HumboldtJean Rousseau | p. 461
- Schematismus: Wilhelm von Humboldt und SchleiermacherVolker Heeschen | p. 465
- Coleridge's ‘Logic’: A systematic theory of languageJames C. McKusick | p. 479
- Steinthal and the Development of Linguistic Science: The convergence of psychology and linguisticsT. Craig Christy | p. 491
- Ethnic Stereotypes in Linguistics: The Case of Friedrich Max Müller (1847-51)Joan Leopold | p. 501
- Organic Language Theory in the American RenaissanceJames Perrin Warren | p. 513
- The Grammatical Philosophies of the Spanish Royal Academy (1870)Ramon Sarmiento Gonzalez | p. 523
- Baudouin de Courtenay: Pioneer in diachronic linguisticsEdward Stankiewicz | p. 539
- VIII. Twentieth Century
- Problématique du substrat et histoire de la créolistique (1879-1939)Daniel Baggioni | p. 553
- Dependency Theory since GrimmHugh Maxwell | p. 565
- Peirce, Saussure, UexküllIrmengard Rauch | p. 575
- Historical Narrative or Scientific Discipline? Fritz Mauthner on the limits of linguisticsElizabeth J. Bredeck | p. 585
- Antoine Meillet et la méthode en linguistiquePierre Swiggers | p. 595
- The Place of Charles Bally in the Lockean TraditionTalbot J. Taylor | p. 607
- La Stylistique de Charles Bally: Une linguistique du sujet parlantJean-Louis Chiss | p. 615
- Trubetzkoy before TrubetzkoyJindřich Toman | p. 627
- Ukrainian Linguistics in Exile (1918-1984)Jaroslav B. Rudnyćkyj | p. 639
- Historiographic Observations on a Current Issue in American LinguisticsJulie T. Andresen | p. 647
- Dual-Coding Hypotheses in Various GuisesL.G. Kelly | p. 657
- (R)REST: Chomskys Annäherung an Saussures ‘langue’ — Konzeption?Hans Ulrich Boas | p. 665
- General Index | pp. 677–680
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