Diversions of Galway : papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Galway, Ireland, 1-6 September 1990 / edited by Anders Ahlqvist ; in collaboration with Konrad Koerner, R.H. Robins, Irène Rosier.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Ahlqvist, Anders.

Koerner, E. F. K.

Robins, R. H.

Rosier-Catach, Irène.

Conference Name:

International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (5th : 1990 : Galway, Ireland)

International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; Series III, v. 68.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, 0304-0720 ; v. 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--History--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.

Contents:

DIVERSIONS OF GALWAY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; List of Participants; Conference Committees; Conference Programme; Opening Address; The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatos Commentaries; Speculative Lexicography: Difficulties in Following the Historical Path of a Linguistic Idea; Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation; On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of Transitivity; Jean Charles Thiebault (de) Laveaux: The Revolt of a Jacobin Grammarian and Lexicographer against the Académie Française

The First Grammar of Frisian (1681)Latinisme ou gallicisme ? Les méthodes translinguistiques latin - français au XVIIIe siècle; The Hibernian Connection: Irish Grammaticography in Louvain; Harmonic Dictionaries and Grammars in Semitic Linguistics; A Grammar without a Tradition? Fernando de la Carrera's Arte de la lengua yunga (1644); Étude historiographique des Manières de Langage; L'Ordre Naturel and Charles Batteux: à bas les philosophes; Grammaire normative/grammaire descriptive dans la linguistique espagnole du XVTIe siècle

How to ""Improve"" a Language: The Case of Eighteenth Century Descriptions of GreenlandicLichtenberg on Language and Reason: One Aspect of the Crisis in German Enlightenment; John Wallis' Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653): The New Science and English Grammar; Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the Passive; Animal Language: a Chapter from the Controversy between Rationalism and Sensualism; The ""Poznan Schoor"" of Structural Linguistics; Salomon Stricker's Motor Theory of Language; Victor Henry et les lois phon(ét)iques

The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas' Theory of PhoneticsThe Beginning and Development of Persian Syntactic Descriptions; Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A Small History of Generative Grammar; Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language: Some Nineteenth-Century Views; ""Maschine"" vs. ""Organismus"". Einige Überlegungen zur Geistes- und Sprachwissen-schaftsgeschichte im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert; Zur Geschichtsschreibung der Sprechakttheorie: der Fall Reinach; Linguistics vs. Philology in an 1864 Student Paper by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay; Abstracts; Index Linguaram

Index NominumIndex Rerum

Notes:

Includes four contributions in French and two in German.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-31311-1

9786613313119

90-272-7722-2

OCLC:

756484584