Summary In the European Middle Ages, what is generally called philosophy of language is represented by a philosophy of the word, not only the scholastic one of the word as ‘part of speech’, developed by the Modistae, but from the 4th century onward, a patristic doctrine of the human word as… read more
SUMMARYThe most widely accepted definition of 'ergative' is in terms of a grammatical case, namely, the subject of a transitive verb, wherein that case is opposed to a second case, the 'absolutive' ('nominative'), which includes both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a… read more