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Diversions of Galway
Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V
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This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 68] 1992. xxviii, 384 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- ForewordAnders Ahlqvist | p. ix
- List of Participants | pp. xiii–xx
- Conference Committees | pp. xxi–xxii
- Conference Programme | pp. xxiii–xxviii
- Opening AddressBrian ó Cuív | p. 1
- The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatus CommentariesRijcklof H.F. Hofman | p. 7
- Speculative Lexicography: Difficulties in Following the Historical Path of a Linguistic IdeaWerner Hüllen | p. 17
- Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical InnovationVivien A. Law | p. 27
- On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of TransitivityAnneli Luhtala | p. 39
- Jean Charles Thiebault (de) Laveaux: The Revolt of a Jacobin Grammarian and Lexicographer against the Académie FrançaiseHerbert E. Brekle | p. 49
- The First Grammar of Frisian (1681)Rolf H. Bremmer | p. 59
- Latinisme ou gallicisme? Les méthodes translinguistiques latin – français au XVIIIe siècleBernard Colombat | p. 73
- The Hibernian Connection: Irish Grammaticography in LouvainJan de Clercq and Pierre Swiggers | p. 85
- Harmonic Dictionaries and Grammars in Semitic LinguisticsYaakov Gruntfest | p. 103
- A Grammar without a Tradition? Fernando de la Carrera's Arte de la lengua yunga (1644)Even Hovdhaugen | p. 113
- Étude historiographique des Manières de LangageBarbara Kaltz | p. 123
- L'Ordre Naturel and Charles Batteux: à bas les philosophesL.G. Kelly | p. 135
- Grammaire normative/grammaire descriptive dans la linguistique espagnole du XVIIe siècleMaría Dolores Martínez Gavilán | p. 145
- How to “Improve” a Language: The Case of Eighteenth Century Descriptions of GreenlandicElke Nowak | p. 157
- Lichtenberg on Language and Reason: One Aspect of the Crisis in German EnlightenmentJohannes Roggenhofer | p. 169
- John Wallis’ Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653): The New Science and English GrammarJoseph L. Subbiondo | p. 183
- Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the PassiveMarijke J. van der Wal | p. 191
- Animal Language: a Chapter from the Controversy between Rationalism and SensualismHelmut Weiß | p. 203
- The “Poznań School” of Structural LinguisticsWieslaw Awedyk and Camiel S.J.N. Hamans | p. 213
- Salomon Strieker's Motor Theory of LanguageT. Craig Christy | p. 227
- Victor Henry et les lois phon(ét)iquesPiet Desmet | p. 237
- The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas’ Theory of PhoneticsMichael Mackert | p. 251
- The Beginning and Development of Persian Syntactic DescriptionsMehdi Meshkatod Dini | p. 261
- Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A Small History of Generative GrammarStephen J. Nagle | p. 269
- Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language: Some Nineteenth-Century ViewsJan Noordegraaf | p. 279
- “Maschine” vs. “Organismus”: Einige Überlegungen zur Geistes-und Sprachwissenschaftsgeschichte im 18. und 19. JahrhundertPeter Schmitter | p. 291
- Zur Geschichtsschreibung der Sprechakttheorie: der Fall ReinachFrank J.M. Vonk | p. 309
- Linguistics vs. Philology in an 1864 Student Paper by Jan Baudouin de CourtenayJoanna Radwańska-Williams | p. 319
- Abstracts | pp. 329–366
- Index Linguarum | pp. 367–368
- Index Nominum | pp. 369–379
- Index Rerum | pp. 380–384
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