Progress in Linguistic Historiography

Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978

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E.F.K. Koerner

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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.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	V
Editor's Preface	XI
I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After
The Liber Sex Principiorum, a Twelfth-Century Treatise in Descriptive Metaphysics William E. McMahon	3
La théorie de la signification des termes communs chez maître Siger de Brabant Bernardo Carlos Bazán	13
A Medieval Exercise in Language Planning: Classical Early Modern Irish Brian ó Cuív	23
Les débuts de l'étude du langage en Irlande Anders Ahlqvist	35
Logical Structures in Sanctius' Linguistic Theory Manuel Breva-Claramonte	45
The Scholastic Background to Locke's Theory of Language E. Jennifer Ashworth	59
II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas
Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Church Slavonic Grammars Constantine Bida†	71
Sir Thomas Smith's ‘De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione Dialogus’ (1568) Cesare G. Cecioni	87
Principles of English Lexicography in the Early Seventeenth Century Tetsuro Hayashi	94
Two Port-Royal Theories of Natural Order Richard Ogle	102
George Dalgarno on ‘Ars Signorum’ and Wilkins' ‘Essay’ David Cram	113
Le prototype défiguré: L'idée scythique et la France gauloise (XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles) Daniel Droixhe	123
III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany
The Eighteenth-Century Debate concerning Linearity or Simultaneity in the Deep Structure of Language: From Buffier to Gottsched Aldo Scaglione	141
The Language of Nature: Inquiries into a concept of 18th-century British linguistics Rudiger Schreyer	155
‘Les vrais principes de la langue françoise’ de l'abbé Girard devant la critique du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours Barbara Kaltz	175
From Condillac to Condorcet: The algebra of history Julie T. Andresen	187
Dumarsais et le lieu des tropes Sylvian Auroux	199
Aspects institutionnels et théoriques de l'auto-nomisation des recherches linguistiques en Grande Bretagne 1780-1800 Patrice Bergheaud	211
IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics
Flexion et racine: Trois étapes de leur constitution: J.C. Adelung, F. Schlegel, F. Bopp Louis-Jean Rousseau	235
Uniformitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics: Implications for a reassessment of the neogrammarian sound-law doctrine T. Craig Christy	249
Linguistique 1908: Un débat-clef de linguistique géographique et une question des sources saussuriennes Rudolf Engler	257
The Definition of ‘Sentence’ and John Ries' Theory Leo Zawadowski	271
On the History of the Axiomatic Method in Linguistics Hans-Heinrich Lieb	297
V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West
How Proto-Chinese Was Reconstructed Matthew Y. Chen	311
Flexion, dérivation et Panini Rajendra Singh et Alan Ford	323
Hellenistic Education and the Origin of Arabic Grammar Kees Versteegh	333
Classificatory Structuralism in Medieval Arabic Grammars: az-Zajjāji's 10th-century ‘The Sentence’ Loraine K. Obler	345
The Earliest Comparisons of Hebrew with Aramaic and Arabic David Téné	355
VI. Supplementa
The Interdisciplinary Relevance of Folk Linguistics Ranko Bugarski	381
The Concept of ‘Scientific’ in the Development of the Language Sciences Roger Van de Velde	395
Postscript Robert H. Robins	403
Index Nominum	407
Index Rerum	417

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History of linguistics

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