ISBN:
9780582094918
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (401 p)
Series Statement:
Longman Linguistics Library
Parallel Title:
Print version History of Linguistics Volume II : Classical and Medieval Linguistics
DDC:
306.44/609378
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes on the contributors; 1 Greek and Latin Linguistics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 The term ''grammar''; 1.1.2 The sources; 1.2 Phonetics and phonology; 1.3 The status and origin of words; 1.3.1 The argument of ''Cratylus''; 1.3.2 The origin and nature of language; 1.4 Elements of the sentence; 1.4.1 The philosophical context; 1.4.2 The theory of parts of speech; 1.4.3 Canonical schemes; 1.5 The prehistory of grammar; 1.5.1 The analysis of the Stoics; 1.5.2 Linguistic norm
Description / Table of Contents:
1.5.3 The Alexandrian scholars1.6 Grammars under the Empire; 1.6.1 Analysis of texts; 1.6.2 The theoretical model of the grammarians; Notes; Abbreviations; References; Ancient; Modern; Additional References; 2 Medieval Linguistics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Linguistics and grammar; 2.2.1 Schools and centres of culture from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian Renaissance; 2.2.2 Schools and centres of culture from the Carolingian Renaissance to the threshold of Humanism; 2.2.3 Knowledge of the Latin grammarians in the various areas of Europe; 2.2.4 Boethius, Cassiodorus and Isidore of Seville
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2.5 Iulianus Toletanus and the beginnings of the early medieval grammatical tradition up to the works of Virgil the grammarian2.2.6 ''Elementary grammarians'' and ''exegetic grammars'' up to the Carolingian Renaissance; 2.2.7 The tenth-twelfth century commentaries on Donatus and Priscian: first indications of the appearance of a speculative grammar Doctrinale and the Grecismus; 2.2.8 Normative treatise writing typical of the Doctrinale and the Grecismus. The Oxford grammatical school of the Late Middle Ages; 2.2.9 Lexicographic activity
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2.10 Grammars for the teaching of Latin written in other languages: the example of Aelfric2.2.11 The grammatical description of languages other than Latin; 2.2.12 Elements of synchronic descriptions of the different local pronunciations of Latininferable from medieval Latin grammars; Notes; 2.3 The philosophy of language; 2.3.1 Platonism in the early Middle Ages; 2.3.2 Aristotelianism in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; 2.3.3 The grammar of the Modistae; 2.3.4 Critics of the Modistae; Notes; Bibliographical references; Editions; Studies; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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