The Study of Language in 17th-Century England

• Location of sources | p. vi
• Preface to the first edition | p. vii
• Preface to the second edition | p. xi
• Further reading | p. xv
• I. Applied Linguistics
• 1. Problems of Language-Teaching: A discussion among Hartlib's friends | p. 3
• 2. Joseph Webbe: Some seventeenth-century views on language-teaching and the nature of meaning | p. 15
• 3. John Brinsley: 17th-century pioneer in applied linguistics | p. 33
• 4. Early Seventeenth-Century Punctuation as a Guide to Sentence-Structure | p. 47
• II. Grammatical Theory
• 5. Pre-Cartesian Linguistics (On the occasion of Noam Chomsky's “Cartesian Linguistics”) | p. 63
• 6. James Shirley and Some Problems of 17th-Century Grammar | p. 87
• 7. ‘Philosophical’ Grammar in John Wilkins's “Essay” | p. 97
• III. Universal Language
• 8. Language-Planning in Seventeenth-Century England; its context and aims | p. 129
• 9. The evolution of Dalgarno's “Ars signorum” (1661) | p. 157
• 10. Cave Beck: A seventeenth-century Ipswich schoolmaster and his “Universal Character” | p. 177
• 11. John Wilkins' “Essay” (1668): Critics and continuators | p. 191
• Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1957-1987
  E.F.K. Koerner | p. 207
• Index of Authors | p. 215

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