Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978(20 Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)

This volume presents a selection of revised papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Ottawa 1978). These have been organized under the following headings: I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After; II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas; III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany; IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics; V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West; and, VI. Supplementa: Beyond the History of Linguistics.

Table of Contents:
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Editor's Preface; 3. I. Classical Traditions in the Middle Ages and Medieval Thought in the Renaissance and After; 4. The Liber Sex Principiorum, a Twelfth-Century Treatise in Descriptive Metaphysics (by McMahon, William E.); 5. La theorie de la signification des termes communs chez maitre Siger de Brabant (by Bazan, Bernardo Carlos); 6. A Medieval Exercise in Language Planning: Classical Early Modern Irish (by Cuiv, Brian o); 7. Les debuts de l'etude du langage en Irlande (by Ahlqvist, Anders); 8. Logical Structures in Sanctius' Linguistic Theory (by Breva-Claramonte, Manuel); 9. The Scholastic Background to Locke's Theory of Language (by Ashworth, E. Jennifer); 10. II. Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Century Linguistic Ideas; 11. Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Church Slavonic Grammars (by Bida+, Constantine); 12. Sir Thomas Smith's 'De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione Dialogus' (1568) (by Cecioni, Cesare G.); 13. Principles of English Lexicography in the Early Seventeenth Century (by Hayashi, Tetsuro); 14. Two Port-Royal Theories of Natural Order (by Ogle, Richard); 15. George Dalgarno on 'Ars Signorum' and Wilkins' 'Essay' (by Cram, David); 16. Le prototype defigure: L'idee scythique et la France gauloise (XVIIe - XVIIIe siecles) (by Droixhe, Daniel); 17. III. Eighteenth-Century Thought in England, France, and Germany; 18. The Eighteenth-Century Debate concerning Linearity or Simultaneity in the Deep Structure of Language: From Buffier to Gottsched (by Scaglione, Aldo); 19. The Language of Nature: Inquiries into a concept of 18th-century British linguistics (by Schreyer, Rudiger); 20. 'Les vrais principes de la langue francoise' de l'abbe Girard devant la critique du XVIIIe siecle a nos jours (by Kaltz, Barbara); 21. From Condillac to Condorcet: The algebra of history (by Andresen, Julie T.); 22. Dumarsais et le lieu des tropes (by Auroux, Sylvain); 23. Aspects institutionnels et theoriques de l'auto-nomisation des recherches linguistiques en Grande Bretagne 1780-1800 (by Bergheaud, Patrice); 24. IV. Late-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Linguistics; 25. Flexion et racine: Trois etapes de leur constitution: J.C. Adelung, F. Schlegel, F. Bopp (by Rousseau, Louis-Jean); 26. Uniformitarianism in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics: Implications for a reassessment of the neogrammarian sound-law doctrine (by Christy, T. Craig); 27. Linguistique 1908: Un debat-clef de linguistique geographique et une question des sources saussuriennes (by Engler, Rudolf); 28. The Definition of 'Sentence' and John Ries' Theory (by Zawadowski, Leo); 29. On the History of the Axiomatic Method in Linguistics (by Lieb, Hans-Heinrich); 30. V. Linguistic Pursuits Outside Europe and Points of Contact Between East and West; 31. How Proto-Chinese Was Reconstructed (by Chen, Matthew Y.); 32. Flexion, derivation et Panini (by Singh, Rajendra); 33. Hellenistic Education and the Origin of Arabic Grammar (by Versteegh, Kees); 34. Classificatory Structuralism in Medieval Arabic Grammars: az-Zajjaji's 10th-century 'The Sentence' (by Obler, Loraine K.); 35. The Earliest Comparisons of Hebrew with Aramaic and Arabic (by Tene, David); 36. VI. Supplementa: Beyond the History of Linguistics; 37. The Interdisciplinary Relevance of Folk Linguistics (by Bugarski, Ranko); 38. The Concept of 'Scientific' in the Development of the Language Sciences (by Van de Velde, Roger); 39. Postscript (by Robins, Robert H.); 40. Index Nominum; 41. Index Rerum