Joseph L. Subbiondo

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joseph L. Subbiondo plays a role.

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Subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy
Many 17th-century philosophers, theologians, and educators were engaged in developing a universal language to remedy the confusion caused by the multiplicity of languages. George Dalgarno (c.1619-1687), who published Ars Signorum(The Art of Signs) in 1661, and John Wilkins (1614-1672), who… read more
Owen Barfield (1898–1997), a cultural critic and historian, has been appreciated by literary scholars and artists including C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden, but he has been relatively unnoticed by linguists despite the fact that he advanced a thoughtfully reasoned and documented theory… read more
John Wilkins’ (1614–1672) earlier work on pulpit oratory in Ecclesiastes (1646) and Gift of Prayer (1655) provide a rationale for his later work on philosophical language in his Essay towards a Real Character (1868). Clauss (1982) pointed out that one could view Wilkins’ linguistic writings as… read more
Subbiondo, Joseph L. 1992 John Wilkins' Theory of Meaning and the Development of a Semantic ModelJohn Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics, Subbiondo, Joseph L. (ed.), pp. 291–308 | Article
Starting in the 1950s, there has been renewed interest in the 17th-century English philosophical language movement and in Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670), who visited England in 1641 and participated in that movement. In that most of the interest in Comenius has been centered on his role in the… read more
In his Herm’œlogium; or an Essay at the Rationality of Speaking of 1659 Basset Jones intended to supplement William Lily’s (c. 1468–1522) popular 16th-century grammar, which had received the endorsement of Edward VI. Written in English and Latin, Lily’s grammar through its many editions not only… read more
Subbiondo, Joseph L. 1990 Neo-Aristotelian Grammar in 17th-Century England: Bassett Jones' theory of rational syntaxNorth American Contributions to the History of Linguistics, Dinneen, S.J., Francis P. and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 87–98 | Article
Thomas Stackhouse’s (1657–1752) Reflections On the Nature and Property of Languages (1731) was directly concerned with two areas critical to an understanding of 18th century English linguistic theory: the nature and origin of language, and rhetorical grammar. Stackhouse’s method was as follows:… read more
Although the semantic theory proposed by Harris in Hermes (1751) was not well received in 18th-century England and has been generally neglected by scholars ever since, it is certainly deserving of our attention because it is a perceptive analysis of the logico-semantic structure of language. In… read more