DIVERSIONS OF GALWAY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; List of Participants; Conference Committees; Conference Programme; Opening Address; The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatos Commentaries; Speculative Lexicography: Difficulties in Following the Historical Path of a Linguistic Idea; Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation; On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of Transitivity; Jean Charles Thiebault (de) Laveaux: The Revolt of a Jacobin Grammarian and Lexicographer against the Académie Française
The First Grammar of Frisian (1681)Latinisme ou gallicisme? Les méthodes translinguistiques latin -- français au XVIIIe siècle; The Hibernian Connection: Irish Grammaticography in Louvain; Harmonic Dictionaries and Grammars in Semitic Linguistics; A Grammar without a Tradition? Fernando de la Carrera's Arte de la lengua yunga (1644); Étude historiographique des Manières de Langage; L'Ordre Naturel and Charles Batteux: à bas les philosophes; Grammaire normative/grammaire descriptive dans la linguistique espagnole du XVTIe siècle
How to "Improve" a Language: The Case of Eighteenth Century Descriptions of GreenlandicLichtenberg on Language and Reason: One Aspect of the Crisis in German Enlightenment; John Wallis' Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653): The New Science and English Grammar; Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the Passive; Animal Language: a Chapter from the Controversy between Rationalism and Sensualism; The "Poznan Schoor" of Structural Linguistics; Salomon Stricker's Motor Theory of Language; Victor Henry et les lois phon(ét)iques
The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas' Theory of PhoneticsThe Beginning and Development of Persian Syntactic Descriptions; Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A Small History of Generative Grammar; Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language: Some Nineteenth-Century Views; "Maschine" vs. "Organismus". Einige Überlegungen zur Geistes- und Sprachwissen-schaftsgeschichte im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert; Zur Geschichtsschreibung der Sprechakttheorie: der Fall Reinach; Linguistics vs. Philology in an 1864 Student Paper by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay; Abstracts; Index Linguaram
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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