Table of contents
Location of sourcesvi
Preface to the first editionvii
Preface to the second editionxi
Further readingxv
I. Applied Linguistics1
1. Problems of Language-Teaching: A discussion among Hartlib's friends3
2. Joseph Webbe: Some seventeenth-century views on language-teaching and the nature of meaning15
3. John Brinsley: 17th-century pioneer in applied linguistics33
4. Early Seventeenth-Century Punctuation as a Guide to Sentence-Structure47
II. Grammatical Theory61
5. Pre-Cartesian Linguistics (On the occasion of Noam Chomsky's “Cartesian Linguistics”)63
6. James Shirley and Some Problems of 17th-Century Grammar87
7. ‘Philosophical’ Grammar in John Wilkins's “Essay”97
III. Universal Language127
8. Language-Planning in Seventeenth-Century England; its context and aims129
9. The evolution of Dalgarno's “Ars signorum” (1661)157
10. Cave Beck: A seventeenth-century Ipswich schoolmaster and his “Universal Character”177
11. John Wilkins' “Essay” (1668): Critics and continuators191
Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1957-1987207
Index of Authors215
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