Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought
Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occassion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980
This volume presents a set of papers on linguistic thought in the Middle Ages. It is complemented by a comprehensive bibliography and indices. The papers in this volume appeared earlier in Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2 (1980).
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 26] 1980. vi, 321 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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PrefaceRobert H. Robins | p. 1
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G. L. Bursill-Hall: List of Publications 1954–1980E.F.K. Koerner | p. 7
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‘Verbum cordis’: Zur Sprachphilosophie des Mittel-altersHans Arens | p. 13
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“Can I Speak More Clearly than I Understand?”: A problem of religious language in Henry of Ghent, Duns Scotus, and OckhamE. Jennifer Ashworth | p. 29
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‘Distinguo’: Modi significandi and covert case rolesFrancis P. Dinneen | p. 39
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Is ‘canis currit’ ungrammatical? Grammar in Elenchi commentariesSten Ebbesen | p. 53
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Universal Grammar according to Some 12th-century GrammariansKarin Margareta Fredborg | p. 69
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Two Medieval Critics of Traditional GrammarDesmond Paul Henry | p. 85
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“Legere est agere”: The first quaestio of the First Quaestiones-Collection in the MS Oxford CCC 250Corneille H. Kneepkens | p. 109
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On Some 12th and 13th Century Doctrines of RestrictionAlain de Libera | p. 131
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Albert the Great on the Semantics of the Categories of Substance, Quantity, and QualityWilliam E. McMahon | p. 145
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The Teaching of Latin as a Second Language in the 12th CenturyJames J. Murphy | p. 159
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Adam Wodeham on the Meaning of Declarative SentencesGabriel Nuchelmans | p. 177
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Occam et les démonstratifsClaude Panaccio | p. 189
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Can Constructions Be Construed? A problem in medieval syntactical theoryJan Pinborg | p. 201
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Monolingualism and Multilingualism in the 14th CenturyMichael Richter | p. 211
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“Each Man's Ass Is not Everybody's Ass”: On an important item in 13th-century semanticsLambertus M. de Rijk | p. 221
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Functional Syntax in Medieval EuropeRobert H. Robins | p. 231
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Richard Lavenham and the Cambridge LogicPaul Vincent Spade | p. 241
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William of Sherwood's Treatise on ObligationsEleonore Stump | p. 249
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Medieval Linguistic Thought: A comprehensive bibliographyE.F.K. Koerner | p. 265
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Index of ManuscriptsHans-Josef Niederehe | p. 300
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Index NominumHans-Josef Niederehe | p. 301
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Index RerumHans-Josef Niederehe | p. 310
Subjects
Philosophy
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General