Hans Arens

List of John Benjamins publications for which Hans Arens plays a role.

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Subjects Classical linguistics | Classical philosophy | History of linguistics
Arens, Hans 1990 ‘De Magistro’: Analyse eines Dialogs von AugustinusDe 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. 17–34 | Article
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
Arens, Hans 1977 Zur Neueren Geschichtsschreibung der LinguistikHistoriographia Linguistica 4:3, pp. 319–382 | Review article
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