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Author Hunt, Richard William, 1908-1979

Title The history of grammar in the Middle Ages : collected papers / R.W. Hunt ; edited, with an introduction, a select bibliography, and indices by G.L. Bursill-Hall
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1980

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 214 pages)
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of linguistics, 0304-0720 ; v. 5
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of linguistics ; v. 5. 0304-0720
Contents THE HISTORY OF GRAMMAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; NOTES; SELECTBIBLIOGRAPHY; STUDIES ON PRISCIAN IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES; STUDIES ON PRISCIAN IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY; ABSOLUTA THE SUMMA OF PETRUS HISPANUS ON PRISCIANUS MINOR; THE INTRODUCTIONS TO THE 'ARTES' IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY; HUGUTIO AND PETRUS HELIAS; THE 'LOST' PREFACE TO THE LIBER DERIVATIONUM OF OSBERN OF GLOUCESTER; OXFORD GRAMMAR MASTERS IN THE MIDDLE AGES; INDICES
Summary This volume brings together a number of papers written by R.W. Hunt (1908-1979) on the history of grammar in the Middle Ages. The importance of these papers lies almost as much in the spark of scholarly investigation that they have inspired, as in their contribution to original research. The first three studies in this collection deal with the change in grammatical doctrine that took place in the late 11th and 12th centuries and from which all subsequent developments during the creative period of medieval grammatical speculation derive. The fourth paper deals with a problem that concerns all
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- History
Language and languages -- Grammars -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Aufsatzsammlung
Forschung
Grammatik
Latein.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bursill-Hall, G. L
LC no. 81453282
ISBN 9789027280978
9027280975
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9781283314343
9786613314345
661331434X