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History of Linguistics 1996
Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics
This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion of problems in translating ancient grammatical texts. The remainder of the volume is arranged in chronological sections, with contributions as follows. II. Classical and Medieval; III. Seventeenth Century; IV. Eighteenth Century; V. Nineteenth Century; VI. Twentieth Century.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 95] 1999. xx, 390 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 June 2011
Published online on 28 June 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Forward | pp. ix–x
- ICHOLS VII Selection Committee | pp. xi–xii
- Conference Programme | pp. xiii–xx
- I. Translating Ancient Grammatical Texts
- A Round-Table DiscussionPierre Swiggers and Alfons Wouters | p. 3
- II. Classical and Medieval
- King Alfred's approach to the study of LatinMark Atherton | p. 15
- Notions of compounding in Priscian's InstitutionesDon Chapman | p. 23
- Time, the verb and Albertus MagnusL.G. Kelly | p. 23
- The relevance of the discussion of the nature of signs in ancient scepticismDanilo Marcondes de Souza Filho | p. 41
- From French-Latin to Latin-French: Reconstructing a medieval dictionary sourceBrian Merrilees and William Edwards | p. 51
- On the object-language/metalanguage distinction in St Augustine's works: De Dialectica and De MagistroEugen Munteanu | p. 65
- On the metrical Priscian Major: A methodological dilemmaW. Keith Percival | p. 79
- III. Seventeenth Century
- Onomasiological dictionaries (900-1700): Their tradition and their linguistic statusWerner Hüllen | p. 89
- Substantial vs. relational analogy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century linguistic thoughtMichael Isermann | p. 105
- Leibniz on rational grammarJaap Maat | p. 113
- The semantics of Johann AlstedWilliam E. McMahon | p. 123
- The 'Generall Grammer of Orientall Tongues' and universal language schemes in 17th-century Britain: The contribution of Christian RaviusJudith Olszowy-Schlanger | p. 131
- Interchange or influence: Grotius' early linguistic ideasMarijke J. van der Wal | p. 143
- 'An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language' (1668): Text/contextsNick Wilding | p. 153
- IV. Eighteenth Century
- Diversity of human languages and universals of thought: An eighteenth-century debate in the Berlin AcademyGerda Haßler | p. 163
- 'A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced than any that has yet Appeared': English as a 'perfect' language in eighteenth-century linguistic thoughtMatthew J. Lauzon | p. 175
- Charles Bertram's 'Royal Danish-English Grammar': The linguistic work of an eighteenth-century fraudAndrew R. Linn | p. 183
- Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) and the science of language: A Dutch linguist between two worldsJan Noordegraaf | p. 193
- Language for everyone: Eighteenth-century female grammarians, Elstob, Fisher and beyondRobin Smith | p. 205
- V. Nineteenth Century
- La philosophie linguistique de Maine de Brian et la nuissance en France de la psychologie scientifiqueDonata Chiricò | p. 217
- The teaching of Spanish as a foreign language at the University of Oxford: Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira and his 'Practical Spanish, a Grammar of the Spanish Language' (1902)Matilde Gallardo | p. 227
- Is a linguistic theory needed for successful applied linguistics? The Estonian experienceMati Hint | p. 233
- The works of Ernst Wilhelm Brücke (1819-1892) and Johann N. Czermak (1828-1873): Landmarks in the history of phoneticsKurt R. Jankowsky | p. 241
- 'Orientalism' and the development of the Volney Prize in LinguisticsJoan Leopold | p. 257
- The pragmatic triangle: Gardiner, Bühler and Reichling on the word and the sentenceBrigitte Nerlich | p. 267
- "Ich erwarte mit Ungeduld das absolute Ende meiner elenden Existenz...": The 'image' of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay in his correspondence with Hugo SchuchardtHerman Seldeslachts and Pierre Swiggers | p. 277
- Gustav Gerber and 'Kantian Linguistics': Presuppositions of thought and linguistic useFrank J.M. Vonk | p. 289
- VI. Twentieth Century
- Saussure's 'anagrams': Blunder or paralanguage?T. Craig Christy | p. 299
- Predecessors of cognitive semantics and speech act theory?Els Elffers-van Ketel | p. 307
- Mais que fait Bar-Hillel quand "le soleil siffle"?Béatrice Godart-Wendling | p. 321
- La mécanisation de dictionnaire dans les premières expériences de traduction automatique (1948-1960)Jacqueline Léon | p. 331
- The first Galician Academy Dictionary and its theoretical backgroundBenigno F. Salgado | p. 341
- Scholars in schoolsFrits Stuurman | p. 355
- Abstracts | pp. 361–372
- Contents of Volume One | pp. 373–376
- Index of Names | pp. 377–381
- Index of Topics | pp. 382–390