About the Book
This volume presents a selection of – slightly revised versions – of papers from the third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 1984. The papers are organized under the following headings: I Generalia; II Classical Period; III Medieval Period; IV Renaissance; V 17th Century; VI 18th Century; VII 19th Century, and VIII 20th Century.
Contributors include W. Keith Percival, Aron Dotan, Michael G. Carter, Kees Versteegh, Brian Ó Cuív, Francis P. Dinneen, Manuel Breva-Claramonte, Douglas A. Kibbee, Joseph L. Subbiondo, Rüdiger Schreyer, Marc Wilmet, Robert H. Robins, Jean Rousseau, Ramón Sarmiento, Edward Stankiewicz, Irmengard Rauch, Talbot J. Taylor, Julie Andresen, and many others.
Table of Contents:
1. Foreword; 2. Conference Program; 3. List of Participants; 4. I. Generalia; 5. Stolen Paradigms: Stammbaum to Black Box (by Gilman, Charles); 6. On the Problem of 'Influence' in Linguistic Historiography (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 7. Linguistics and Economics (by Muecke, Stephen); 8. II. Classical Period; 9. Panini, Language Theories and the Dialectics of Grammar (by Lele, Jayant K.); 10. Aristotelian Categorial Theory Viewed as a Theory of Componential Semantics (by McMahon, William E.); 11. On Priscian's Syntactic Theory: The medieval perspective (by Percival, W. Keith); 12. III. Medieval Period; 13. From the Beginning of Medieval Hebrew-Arabic Lexicography (by Dotan, Aron); 14. When Did the Word nahw Come to Denote Grammar? (Abstract) (by Carter, Michael G.); 15. Marginality in the Arab Grammatical Tradition (by Versteegh, Kees); 16. A Medieval Arab Theory of Language Acquisition (by Ibrahim, Muhammad H.); 17. The Observations of Medieval Irish Scholars on Sandhi Phenomena in Irish (by Cuiv, Brian o); 18. Supposition in Petrus Hispanus' Summulae Logicales (by Dinneen, S.J., Francis P.); 19. Dante's notion of the vulgare illustre: a reappraisal (by Mazzocco, Angelo); 20. Vernacular Translation and Instruction in Grammar in Fifteenth-Century England (by Copeland, Rita); 21. IV. Renaissance; 22. La Lexicografia espanola desde los principios hasta el ano 1599 (by Niederehe, Hans-Josef); 23. A Re-Analysis of Juan-Luis Vives' (1492-1540) 'Exercitatio Linguae Latinae' (by Breva-Claramonte, Manuel); 24. Bilingual Lexicography in the Renaissance: Palsgrave's English-French Lexicon (1530) (by Kibbee, Douglas A.); 25. John Donne's Moralized Grammar: A study in Renaissance Christian Hebraica (by Hill, Eugene D.); 26. V. Seventeenth Century; 27. What is Mystical Language? (by Willard, Thomas); 28. Ellipsis in Seventeenth-Century English Grammars (by Smith, Robin); 29. Early New England Missionary Linguistics (by Guice, Stephen A.); 30. Usage and Reason in Seventeenth-Century French Grammar: A fresh look at Vaugelas (by Ayres-Bennett, Wendy); 31. Style and Utopia: Sprat's demand for a plain style, reconsidered (by Hullen, Werner); 32. John Wilkins' Theory of Articulatory Phonetics (by Subbiondo, Joseph L.); 33. John Wilkins and the Development of a Structural Semantics (by Dolezal, Fredric); 34. The Study of the Article in England from Wallis to Horne Tooke, 1653-1798 (by Joly, Andre); 35. VI. Eighteenth Century; 36. Linguistics Meets Caliban or the Uses of Savagery in 18th-Century Theoretical History of Language (by Schreyer, Rudiger); 37. Semantique synonymique: Une contre-rhetorique Condillac et Diderot (by Choul, J-C.); 38. Une 'filiere francaise': La posterite de Beauzee (by Wilmet, Marc); 39. Die Grundlegung der empirischen Sprachwissenschaft als 'Wissenschaft am Menschen' (by Gessinger, Joachim); 40. Language Theory, the Institution of Philology and the State: The emergence of philological discourse 1770-1810 (by Leventhal, Robert S.); 41. Wilhelm Heinse's Critique of Enlightenment Semiotics (by Rickels, Laurence A.); 42. Language Policy of the East India Company and the Asiatic Society of Bengal (by Pachori, Satya S.); 43. Sir William Jones and Applied Linguistics (by Cannon, Garland); 44. Sir William Jones and Phonetic Transcription (by Salus, Peter H.); 45. Language, Ethics and Ideology: Dugald Stewart's 'Common Sense' critique of empiricist historical and genetic linguistics (by Bergheaud, Patrice); 46. VII. Nineteenth Century; 47. Les grammaires francaises a l'usage des Neerlandophones en Belgique (de 1763 a 1925) (by Boone, Annie); 48. Duponceau and Early Nineteenth-Century Linguistics (by Robins, Robert H.); 49. The First Uses of the French Word 'Linguistique' (1812-1880) (by Auroux, Sylvain); 50. Les trois methodes de la comparaison chez Wilhelm von Humboldt (by Rousseau, Jean); 51. Schematismus: Wilhelm von Humboldt und Schleiermacher (by Heeschen, Volker); 52. Coleridge's 'Logic': A systematic theory of language (by McKusick, James C.); 53. Steinthal and the Development of Linguistic Science: The convergence of psychology and linguistics (by Christy, T. Craig); 54. Ethnic Stereotypes in Linguistics: The Case of Friedrich Max Muller (1847-51) (by Leopold, Joan); 55. Organic Language Theory in the American Renaissance (by Warren, James Perrin); 56. The Grammatical Philosophies of the Spanish Royal Academy (1870) (by Sarmiento Gonzalez, Ramon); 57. Baudouin de Courtenay: Pioneer in diachronic linguistics (by Stankiewicz, Edward); 58. VIII. Twentieth Century; 59. Problematique du substrat et histoire de la creolistique (1879-1939) (by Baggioni, Daniel); 60. Dependency Theory since Grimm (by Maxwell, Hugh); 61. Peirce, Saussure, Uexkull (by Rauch, Irmengard); 62. Historical Narrative or Scientific Discipline?: Fritz Mauthner on the limits of linguistics (by Bredeck, Elizabeth J.); 63. Antoine Meillet et la methode en linguistique (by Swiggers, Pierre); 64. The Place of Charles Bally in the Lockean Tradition (by Taylor, Talbot J.); 65. La Stylistique de Charles Bally: Une linguistique du sujet parlant (by Chiss, Jean-Louis); 66. Trubetzkoy before Trubetzkoy (by Toman, Jindrich); 67. Ukrainian Linguistics in Exile (1918-1984) (by Rudnyckyj, Jaroslav B.); 68. Historiographic Observations on a Current Issue in American Linguistics (by Andresen, Julie T.); 69. Dual-Coding Hypotheses in Various Guises (by Kelly, L.G.); 70. (R)REST: Chomskys Annaherung an Saussures 'langue' - Konzeption? (by Boas, Hans Ulrich); 71. General Index
