Studies in Medieval Linguistic Thought: Dedicated to Geofrey L. Bursill-Hall on the Occassion of His 60th Birthday on 15 May 1980

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This volume presents a set of papers on linguistic thought in the Middle Ages. It is complemented by a comprehensive bibliography and indices. The papers in this volume appeared earlier in Historiographia Linguistica 7:1/2 (1980). MEDIEVAL LINGUISTIC THOUGHT Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents PREFACE G. L. BURSILL-HALL: PUBLICATIONS, 1954-1980 ADDENDA 'VERBUM CORDIS' ZUR SPRACHPHILOSOPHIE DES MITTELALTERS ANMERKUNGEN SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ "CAN I SPEAK MORE CLEARLY THAN I UNDERSTAND?" A PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN HENRY OF GHENT, DUNS SCOTUS AND OCKHAM NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ DISTINGUO MODI SIGNIFICANDI AND COVERT CASE ROLES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ IS "CANIS CURRIT" UNGRAMMATICAL?GRAMMAR IN ELENCHI COMMENTARIES NOTES* APPENDIX SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR ACCORDING TO SOME 12TH-CENTURY GRAMMARIANS NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ TWO MEDIEVAL CRITICS OF TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ "LEGERE EST AGERE": THE FIRST QUAESTIO OF THE FIRST QUAESTIONES-COLLECTION IN THE MS OXFORD, CCC 250 1. Introduction 2. The Quaestiones Collections in the MS Oxford CCC 250 3. The First Quaestio: "Legere est agere " 4. The Textbooks on Logic 5. The Grammar Textbooks 6. Concluding Remarks NOTES APPENDIX QUAESTIO PRIMA SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ ON SOME 12TH AND 13TH CENTURY DOCTRINES OF RESTRICTION SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ ALBERT THE GREAT ON THE SEMANTICS OF THE CATEGORIES OF SUBSTANCE, QUANTITY, AND QUALITY NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ THE TEACHING OF LATIN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN THE 12TH CENTURY SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ ADAM WODEHAM ON THE MEANING OF DECLARATIVE SENTENCES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ OCCAM ET LES DEMONSTRATIFS* 1. Le statut thématique des démonstratifs 2. Le rôle opératoire des démonstratifs 3. Essai d'explication: les désignateurs directs NOTES SIGLES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ CAN CONSTRUCTIONS BE CONSTRUED? A PROBLEM IN MEDIEVAL SYNTACTICAL THEORY APPENDIX NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ MONOLINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM IN THE 14TH CENTURY NOTES APPENDIX SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ EACH MAN'S ASS IS NOT EVERYBODY'S ASS ON AN IMPORTANT ITEM IN 13TH-CENTURY SEMANTICS 0. Status quaestionis 1. Sherwood's discussion of the sophism 2. Our sophism in the 13th century 2.1. The Dialectica Monacensis (c. 1200) 2.2 The Sophismata Parisius determinata (c. 1240?) 2.3 The Magister Abstractionum (c.1230) 2.4 The Oxford condemnation of the Rule's rejection (1277) 3. The semantic impact of the discussion NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ FUNCTIONAL SYNTAX IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE* NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ RICHARD LAVENHAM AND THE CAMBRIDGE LOGIC NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ WILLIAM OF SHERWOOD'S TREATISE ON OBLIGATIONS NOTES SUMMARY RÉSUMÉ MEDIEVAL LINGUISTIC THOUGHT SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS INDEX NOMINUM INDEX RERUM