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Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V

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Anders Ahlqvist

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This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 68] 1992. xxviii, 384 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.68

Table of Contents

Foreword Anders Ahlqvist	ix
List of Participants	xiii
Conference Committees	xxi
Conference Programme	xxiii
Opening Address Brian ó Cuív	1
The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatus Commentaries Rijcklof H.F. Hofman	7
Speculative Lexicography: Difficulties in Following the Historical Path of a Linguistic Idea Werner Hüllen	17
Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation Vivien A. Law	27
On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of Transitivity Anneli Luhtala	39
Jean Charles Thiebault (de) Laveaux: The Revolt of a Jacobin Grammarian and Lexicographer against the Académie Française Herbert E. Brekle	49
The First Grammar of Frisian (1681) Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.	59
Latinisme ou gallicisme?: Les méthodes translinguistiques latin – français au XVIII^e siècle Bernard Colombat	73
The Hibernian Connection: Irish Grammaticography in Louvain Jan de Clercq and Pierre Swiggers	85
Harmonic Dictionaries and Grammars in Semitic Linguistics Yaakov Gruntfest	103
A Grammar without a Tradition?: Fernando de la Carrera's Arte de la lengua yunga (1644) Even Hovdhaugen	113
Étude historiographique des Manières de Langage Barbara Kaltz	123
L'Ordre Naturel and Charles Batteux: à bas les philosophes L.G. Kelly	135
Grammaire normative/grammaire descriptive dans la linguistique espagnole du XVIIe siècle María Dolores Martínez Gavilán	145
How to “Improve” a Language: The Case of Eighteenth Century Descriptions of Greenlandic Elke Nowak	157
Lichtenberg on Language and Reason: One Aspect of the Crisis in German Enlightenment Johannes Roggenhofer	169
John Wallis’ Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653): The New Science and English Grammar Joseph L. Subbiondo	183
Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the Passive Marijke J. van der Wal	191
Animal Language: a Chapter from the Controversy between Rationalism and Sensualism Helmut Weiß	203
The “Poznań School” of Structural Linguistics Wieslaw Awedyk and Camiel S.J.N. Hamans	213
Salomon Strieker's Motor Theory of Language T. Craig Christy	227
Victor Henry et les lois phon(ét)iques Piet Desmet	237
The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas’ Theory of Phonetics Michael Mackert	251
The Beginning and Development of Persian Syntactic Descriptions Mehdi Meshkatod Dini	261
Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A Small History of Generative Grammar Stephen J. Nagle	269
Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language: Some Nineteenth-Century Views Jan Noordegraaf	279
“Maschine” vs. “Organismus”: Einige Überlegungen zur Geistes-und Sprachwissenschaftsgeschichte im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert Peter Schmitter	291
Zur Geschichtsschreibung der Sprechakttheorie: der Fall Reinach Frank J.M. Vonk	309
Linguistics vs. Philology in an 1864 Student Paper by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay Joanna Radwańska-Williams	319
Abstracts	329
Index Linguarum	367
Index Nominum	369
Index Rerum	380

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Subjects

Linguistics

History of linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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