History of Linguistics, Volume 2: Classical and Medieval Linguistics

Description

This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods. Volume Two examines the Greek, Roman and Medieval European traditions, which between them developed the grammatical and syntactical models which form the basis of our inherited linguistic assumptions. Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Notes on the contributors 1 Greek and Latin Linguistics • Peter Matthews 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Phonetics and phonology 1.3 The status and origin of words 1.4 Elements of the sentence 1.5 The prehistory of grammar 1.6 Grammars under the Empire Notes Abbreviations References 2 Medieval Linguistics • Edoardo Vineis and Alfonso Maierù 2.1 Introduction • Edoardo Vineis 2.2 Linguistics and grammar • Edoardo Vineis Notes 2.3 The philosophy of language • Alfonso Maierù Notes Bibliographical references Index