Progress in Linguistic Historiography
Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978
Editor
This volume presents a selection of revised papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Ottawa 1978). These have been organized under the following headings: I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After; II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas; III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany; IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics; V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West; and, VI. Supplementa: Beyond the History of Linguistics.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 20] 1980. xiv, 421 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. V
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Editor's Preface | p. XI
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I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After
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The Liber Sex Principiorum, a Twelfth-Century Treatise in Descriptive MetaphysicsWilliam E. McMahon | p. 3
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La théorie de la signification des termes communs chez maître Siger de BrabantBernardo Carlos Bazán | p. 13
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A Medieval Exercise in Language Planning: Classical Early Modern IrishBrian ó Cuív | p. 23
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Les débuts de l'étude du langage en IrlandeAnders Ahlqvist | p. 35
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Logical Structures in Sanctius' Linguistic TheoryManuel Breva-Claramonte | p. 45
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The Scholastic Background to Locke's Theory of LanguageE. Jennifer Ashworth | p. 59
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II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas
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Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Church Slavonic GrammarsConstantine Bida† | p. 71
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Sir Thomas Smith's ‘De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione Dialogus’ (1568)Cesare G. Cecioni | p. 87
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Principles of English Lexicography in the Early Seventeenth CenturyTetsuro Hayashi | p. 94
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Two Port-Royal Theories of Natural OrderRichard Ogle | p. 102
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George Dalgarno on ‘Ars Signorum’ and Wilkins' ‘Essay’David Cram | p. 113
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Le prototype défiguré: L'idée scythique et la France gauloise (XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles)Daniel Droixhe | p. 123
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III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany
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The Eighteenth-Century Debate concerning Linearity or Simultaneity in the Deep Structure of Language: From Buffier to GottschedAldo Scaglione | p. 141
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The Language of Nature: Inquiries into a concept of 18th-century British linguisticsRudiger Schreyer | p. 155
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‘Les vrais principes de la langue françoise’ de l'abbé Girard devant la critique du XVIIIe siècle à nos joursBarbara Kaltz | p. 175
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From Condillac to Condorcet: The algebra of historyJulie T. Andresen | p. 187
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Dumarsais et le lieu des tropesSylvian Auroux | p. 199
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Aspects institutionnels et théoriques de l'auto-nomisation des recherches linguistiques en Grande Bretagne 1780-1800Patrice Bergheaud | p. 211
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IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics
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Flexion et racine: Trois étapes de leur constitution: J.C. Adelung, F. Schlegel, F. BoppLouis-Jean Rousseau | p. 235
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Uniformitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics: Implications for a reassessment of the neogrammarian sound-law doctrineT. Craig Christy | p. 249
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Linguistique 1908: Un débat-clef de linguistique géographique et une question des sources saussuriennesRudolf Engler | p. 257
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The Definition of ‘Sentence’ and John Ries' TheoryLeo Zawadowski | p. 271
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On the History of the Axiomatic Method in LinguisticsHans-Heinrich Lieb | p. 297
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V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West
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How Proto-Chinese Was ReconstructedMatthew Y. Chen | p. 311
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Flexion, dérivation et PaniniRajendra Singh and Alan Ford | p. 323
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Hellenistic Education and the Origin of Arabic GrammarKees Versteegh | p. 333
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Classificatory Structuralism in Medieval Arabic Grammars: az-Zajjāji's 10th-century ‘The Sentence’Loraine K. Obler | p. 345
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The Earliest Comparisons of Hebrew with Aramaic and ArabicDavid Téné | p. 355
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VI. Supplementa: Beyond the History of Linguistics
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The Interdisciplinary Relevance of Folk LinguisticsRanko Bugarski | p. 381
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The Concept of ‘Scientific’ in the Development of the Language SciencesRoger Van de Velde | p. 395
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PostscriptRobert H. Robins | p. 403
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Index Nominum | p. 407
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Index Rerum | p. 417
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