William E. McMahon
List of John Benjamins publications for which William E. McMahon plays a role.
1999 The semantics of Johann Alsted History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 123–130 | Chapter
1990 Some Formal Aspects of Aristotelian Componential Semantics History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 97–110 | Chapter
1987 Aristotelian Categorial Theory Viewed as a Theory of Componential Semantics 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. 53–64 | Article
1980 Albert the Great on the Semantics of the Categories of Substance, Quantity, and Quality Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2, pp. 145–157 | Article
The underlying theory for modistic grammar is Aristotelian metaphysics, especially the theory of the categories. This paper deals with the semantics of the categories as viewed by one of the most important medieval commentators, Albert the Great. Albert’s comments on the categories of substance,… read more
1980 Albert the Great on the Semantics of the Categories of Substance, Quantity, and Quality Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980, Koerner, E.F.K. †, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Robert H. Robins (eds.), pp. 145–158 | Article
1977 Strawson and the Aristotelian Ontological Square Studies in Language 1:3, pp. 363–378 | Article