John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics

• Editor's Introduction | p. XIII
• Acknowledgements
• I. John Wilkins (1614-1672): Life and Work
• John Wilkins
  Hans Aarsleff | p. 3
• II. Wilkins and the 17th-century Reconciliation of Science, Religion, and Language
• John Wilkins' Essay Toward a Real Character: Its place in the seventeenth century episteme
  Sidonie Clauss | p. 45
• Dr. Wilkins and the Royal Society
  Dorothy Stimson | p. 69
• The Ross-Wilkins Controversy
  Grant McColley | p. 95
• John Wilkins and the Royal Society's Reform of Prose Style
  Francis Christensen | p. 133
• III. The Sources of Wilkins' Philosophical Language
• Comenius and the Real Character in England
  Benjamin DeMott | p. 155
• The Sources and Development of John Wilkins' Philosophical Language
  Benjamin DeMott | p. 169
• On the Sources of John Wilkins' Philosophical Language
  Otto Funke | p. 183
• Language Universals and 17th-Century Universal Schemes
  David Cram | p. 191
• IV. Theory and Practice in Wilkins' Philosophical Language
• 'Philosophical' Grammar in Wilkins' Essay
  Vivian Salmon | p. 207
• On the Project of a Universal Character
  Jonathan Cohen | p. 237
• The Real Character of Bishop Wilkins
  Edward Neville da Costa Andrade | p. 253
• Wilkin's Natural Grammar: The verb phrase
  Thomas Frank | p. 263
• V. Wilkins' Classification of Reality
• John Wilkins and Noah's Ark
  Clark Emery | p. 279
• John Wilkins' Linguistic Views
  Sergey Semenovich Linsky | p. 285
• John Wilkins' Theory of Meaning and the Development of a Semantic Model
  Joseph L. Subbiondo | p. 291
• John Wilkins' and William Lloyd's Alphabetical Dictionary (1668): Towards a comprehensive, and systematically defined, lexicon
  Fredric Dolezal | p. 309
• The Significance of John Wilkins in the History of Bibliographical Classification
  B.C. Vickery | p. 329
• VI. Wilkins' Legacy
• John Wilkins' Essay (1668): Critics and continuators
  Vivian Salmon | p. 349
• Select Biography
• A. Writings by John Wilkins | p. 365
• B. Secondary Sources | p. 366
• Index of Biographical Names

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