This chapter explores some of the ways in which medieval Irish scholars thought about the linguistic concept of the word. Starting points are (i) the observation that they have been credited with the implementation of forms of word division in scribal practice and (ii) the question of whether they… read more
The grammatical category ‘declension’ cannot be applied to Welsh substantive nouns since they have one form only for the singular and the plural respectively. But some Welsh grammarians of the 16th and 17th centuries tried to use this category to classify substantive nouns by proposing new… read more
Summary The understanding and usage of linguistic terminology in 18th-century grammatical writings on the German language cannot be separated from concepts of technical languages as developed in contemporary logic. No list of existing linguistic terminology during the period will be given here,… read more