History of Linguistics 1996

1. Forward; 2. ICHOLS VII Selection Committee; 3. Conference Programme; 4. I. Translating Ancient Grammatical Texts; 5. A Round-Table Discussion (by Swiggers, Pierre); 6. II. Classical and Medieval; 7. King Alfred's approach to the study of Latin (by Atherton, Mark); 8. Notions of compounding in Priscian's Institutiones (by Chapman, Don); 9. Time, the verb and Albertus Magnus (by Kelly, L.G.); 10. The relevance of the discussion of the nature of signs in ancient scepticism (by Marcondes de Souza Filho, Danilo); 11. From French-Latin to Latin-French: Reconstructing a medieval dictionary source (by Merrilees, Brian); 12. On the object-language/metalanguage distinction in St Augustine's works: De Dialectica and De Magistro (by Munteanu, Eugen); 13. On the metrical Priscian Major: A methodological dilemma (by Percival, W. Keith); 14. III. Seventeenth Century; 15. Onomasiological dictionaries (900-1700): Their tradition and their linguistic status (by Hullen, Werner); 16. Substantial vs. relational analogy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century linguistic thought (by Isermann, Michael); 17. Leibniz on rational grammar (by Maat, Jaap); 18. The semantics of Johann Alsted (by McMahon, William E.); 19. The 'Generall Grammer of Orientall Tongues' and universal language schemes in 17th-century Britain: The contribution of Christian Ravius (by Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith); 20. Interchange or influence: Grotius' early linguistic ideas (by Wal, Marijke J. van der); 21. 'An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language' (1668): Text/contexts (by Wilding, Nick); 22. IV. Eighteenth Century; 23. Diversity of human languages and universals of thought: An eighteenth-century debate in the Berlin Academy (by Hassler, Gerda); 24. 'A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced than any that has yet Appeared': English as a 'perfect' language in eighteenth-century linguistic thought (by Lauzon, Matthew J.); 25. Charles Bertram's 'Royal Danish-English Grammar': The linguistic work of an eighteenth-century fraud (by Linn, Andrew R.); 26. Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) and the science of language: A Dutch linguist between two worlds (by Noordegraaf, Jan); 27. Language for everyone: Eighteenth-century female grammarians, Elstob, Fisher and beyond (by Smith, Robin); 28. V. Nineteenth Century; 29. La philosophie linguistique de Maine de Brian et la nuissance en France de la psychologie scientifique (by Chirico, Donata); 30. The teaching of Spanish as a foreign language at the University of Oxford: Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira and his 'Practical Spanish, a Grammar of the Spanish Language' (1902) (by Gallardo, Matilde); 31. Is a linguistic theory needed for successful applied linguistics?: The Estonian experience (by Hint, Mati); 32. The works of Ernst Wilhelm Brucke (1819-1892) and Johann N. Czermak (1828-1873): Landmarks in the history of phonetics (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.); 33. 'Orientalism' and the development of the Volney Prize in Linguistics (by Leopold, Joan); 34. The pragmatic triangle: Gardiner, Buhler and Reichling on the word and the sentence (by Nerlich, Brigitte); 35. "Ich erwarte mit Ungeduld das absolute Ende meiner elenden Existenz...": The 'image' of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay in his correspondence with Hugo Schuchardt (by Seldeslachts, Herman); 36. Gustav Gerber and 'Kantian Linguistics': Presuppositions of thought and linguistic use (by Vonk, Frank J.M.); 37. VI. Twentieth Century; 38. Saussure's 'anagrams': Blunder or paralanguage? (by Christy, T. Craig); 39. Predecessors of cognitive semantics and speech act theory? (by Elffers-van Ketel, Els); 40. Mais que fait Bar-Hillel quand "le soleil siffle"? (by Godart-Wendling, Beatrice); 41. La mecanisation de dictionnaire dans les premieres experiences de traduction automatique (1948-1960) (by Leon, Jacqueline); 42. The first Galician Academy Dictionary and its theoretical background (by Salgado, Benigno F.); 43. Scholars in schools (by Stuurman, Frits); 44. Abstracts; 45. Contents of Volume One; 46. Index of Names; 47. Index of Topics