Valérie Raby

List of John Benjamins publications for which Valérie Raby plays a role.

Articles

Since the 1970’s, history of linguistics has been called upon to locate the sources of a deceptively familiar notion: the grammatical sentence. In this paper, we first review the main hypotheses regarding the birth act of the notion, we then question the relationship between two moments that… read more
Abbé Sicard is the inventor of a highly uncommon method for syntactic pars­ing, originally intended for his “deaf-mute” students. The pur­pose of this method was to lay bare the logical structure of a sentence by means of a cipher mapping its constituents to numerical values. This “numerical… read more
Historians agree that the first treatises about the history of linguistics emerged during the last decade of the 19th century, with the works of D. Thiébault (1793, “Lettre à M. Pinglin sur l’histoire de la science grammaticale”) and F. Thurot (1796, “Tableau des progrès de la science… read more