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9780521565325

The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521565325

  • ISBN10:

    0521565324

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-02-24
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect evolving modes of thinking. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources are included. A survey chapter updates the coverage to the present day.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Getting ready to study the history of linguistics
2. Greek philosophy and the origins of western linguistics
3. Towards a discipline of grammar: the transition from philosophy
4. From literacy to grammar: describing language structure in the ancient world
5. Christianity and language
6. The early Middle Ages
7. The Carolingian Renaissance
8. Scholasticism: linking language and reality
9. Medieval vernacular grammars
10. The Renaissance: discovery of the outer world
11. And what happened next? Linguistics since 1600 - in brief
12. Becoming a historian of linguistics.

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