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Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 1:2 (1974) ► pp. 203–219
Review article

Grammar and meaning in the late Middle Ages. Part I

G[eoffrey] L[eslie] Bursill-Hall. Speculative Grammars of the Middle Ages: The doctrine of partes orationis of the Modistae
The Hague: Mouton, 1971 [1972]. 424 pp. Cloth, Hfl. 70,-,*.
andG. L. Bursill-Hall. Thomas of Erfurt: Grammatica speculativa
Edited with an introduction, a translation, and a commentary byLondon: Longman, . xii, 340 pp. Cloth £ 5.50

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