History and historiography of linguistics : papers from the fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV) : Trier, 24-28 August 1987. I / edited by Hans-Josef Niederehe and Konrad Koerner.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Niederehe, Hans-Josef, 1937-

Koerner, E. F. K.

Conference Name:

International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (4th : 1987 : Trier, Germany)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; Series III, v. 51.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, 0304-0720 ; v. 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--History--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These two volume present papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), held at the University of Trier, Germany, in August 1987. Volume 1 contains the following sections: I. Generalia; II. Antiquity; III. Arabic Linguistics; IV. Middle Ages; V. Renaissance; VI. 17th Century. Volume 2 continues with: VII. 18th Century; VIII. 19th Century; IX. 20th Century; and provides Author and Subject Indexes.

Contents:

HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Vorwort; ICHoLS IV; Opening Address; I. GENERALIA; De la 'technê' au calcul: La question de la scientificité de la grammaire; Grammatik als 'inventio'; Die ersten Stunden: Am Ursprung der Sprachwissenschaft; On the History of Linguistic Terminology; On 'Unrewriting the History of Linguistics'; II. ANTIKE; Free Will versus Arbitrariness in the History of the Linguistic Sign; Roman Evidence on the Authenticity of the Grammar Attributed to Dionysius Thrax

Some Formal Aspects of Aristotelian Componential SemanticsZu Text und Interpretation der grammatischen Abschnitte in Aristoteles' Poetik und zur Umdeutung und Umformung der Redeteileinteilung bis ins orientalische Mittelalter; III. ARABISCHE SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT; New North Arabian Epigraphic Evidence for the History of the Decipherment of the Alphabet; Al-Mubarrad's Place in the History of Arabic Grammar; Are Linguists Ridiculous? A heavenly discussion between Grammarians in the 11th Century

An Aspect of 19th Century Arabic Lexicography: The modernizing role and contribution of Faris al-Shidyaq (1804?-1887)IV. MITTELALTER; Commentary and Metalanguage in Early Medieval Latin Grammar; Un courant méconnu de la grammaire spéculative; Medieval Philosophers and Translation; Alonsode Madrigal: AmedievalSpanish pioneer of translation theory; ""Ydioma Tripharium"" (Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia, I 8-9); V. RENAISSANCE; Zum Begriff der 'brevitas' in der Grammatik (16. und 17. Jahrhundert); Grammaire et philosophie chez Jules-César Scaliger

Translation in Pedro-Simón Abril's (1530-1600) Teaching MethodOn the History of Classifications in the Romance Language Group; French Grammarians and Grammars of French in the 16th Century; La tradizione storico-filologica nella linguistica italiana del Settecento; Lexikbeschreibung und Lexikographie zum Spanischen in Amerika; VI. 17. JAHRHUNDERT; The Origins of Syntax: Descartes or the Modistae?; On Comenius' Universal Language; John Wilkins' Theory of the Origin and Development of Language: Historical linguistics in 17th-century Britain

'Influence' in Linguistic Historiography: Some Examples from Seventeenth-Century FranceLe traitement de l'article dans les grammaires françaises à l'usage des néerlandophones en Belgique (du XVIIe au XIXe siècle)

Notes:

Papers in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-31356-1

9786613313560

90-272-7811-3

OCLC:

756484602