W. Keith Percival
List of John Benjamins publications for which W. Keith Percival plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0168-2555
2001 Nebrijas Syntactic Theory in its Historical Setting History of Linguistics in Spain/Historia de la Lingüística en España: Volume II, Koerner, E.F.K. † and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 3–16 | Article
2000 Saussure’s View of the Value of Diachrony History and Perspectives of Language Study: Papers in honor of Ranko Bugarski, Mišeska Tomić, Olga and Milorad Radovanović (eds.), pp. 101–114 | Article
1999 On the metrical Priscian Major: A methodological dilemma History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 79–88 | Chapter
1997 Nebrija’s syntatic theory in its historical setting Historiographia Linguistica 24:1/2, pp. 1–14 | Article
Antonio de Nebrija (1444?–1522) inherited his syntactic theory from a grammatical tradition which had developed in Italy in the High Middle Ages more or less independently of the speculative tradition of northern Europe. The distinctive features of this system are the following: (1) The main verb… read more
1995 The Genealogy of General Linguistics History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 47–54 | Article
1992 36. On The Historical Sources of Sanctian Linguistics Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday, Zwicky, Arnold M., Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek (eds.), pp. 191–198 | Chapter
1990 Reflections on the History of Dependency Notions in Linguistics North American Contributions to the History of Linguistics, Dinneen, S.J., Francis P. and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 29–48 | Article
1990 A Hitherto Unpublished Medieval Grammatical Fragment on Latin Syntax and Syntactic Figures De Ortu Grammaticae: Studies in medieval grammar and linguistic theory in memory of Jan Pinborg, Bursill-Hall, Geoffrey L., Sten Ebbesen and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 271–284 | Article
1990 Reflections on the history of dependency notions in linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 17:1/2, pp. 29–47 | Article
This paper outlines the history of dependency notions from Antiquity to the present century. Although the notion of syntactic dependency was unknown in Antiquity, the idea of semantic dependency was foreshadowed in early definitions of the minor parts of speech, i.e., parts of speech other than… read more
1987 On Priscian's Syntactic Theory: The medieval perspective 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, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 65–76 | Article
1986 The Reception of Hebrew in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Impact of the Cabbala The History of Linguistics in Spain, Quilis Morales, Antonio and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 21–38 | Article
1984 The reception of Hebrew in sixteenth-century Europe: The impact of the Cabbala Historiographia Linguistica 11:1/2, pp. 21–38 | Article
The main thesis of this article is that a species of general linguistics arose in 16th-century western Europe as a result of the impact of Hebrew studies. Two features of traditional Hebrew grammatical practice produced this, effect: (1) the phonetic classification of consonants by point of… read more
1982 Review of Brito, Enders & Pinborg (1980): Quaestiones super Priscianum minorent Studies in Language 6:1, pp. 119–125 | Review