Table of contents
Editor's Forewordv
I. Surveys of 16th and 17th Century Linguistic Scholarship
1. Effort and Achievement in 17th-Century British Linguistics3
2. Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship31
3. Views on Meaning in 16th-Century England55
4. Language Politics of the 16th and 17th-Century English Church77
II. On Universal and Individual Traits of Language
5. William Bedell and the Universal Language Movement in 17th-Century Ireland99
6.Wh- and Yes/No Questions: Charles Butler's Grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept112
7. Nathaniel Chamberlain and his Tractatus de Literis et Lingua Philosophica (1679)131
III. Language Learning and Language Instruction
8. Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics143
9. The Study of Foreign Languages in 17th-Century England173
10. Arabists and Linguists in England in the 17th Century195
11. Missionary Linguistics in 17th-Century Ireland212
12. Bathsua Makin (1600–c.1673): A pioneer linguist and feminist239
Appendix: List of Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1988–1996261
Index of Personal Names267
Index of Subjects, Terms and Languages273
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