The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period
Published on 1. January 1987
Book
Hardback
298 pages
978-90-272-4529-8 (ISBN)
Description
The study of Greek and Roman language science has figured prominently in the remarkable renascence of interest in the history of linguistics of the last twenty years. We know more now than we did several decades ago about what the Greeks and Romans were thinking, writing, and doing in matters grammatical, and the scholars who contribute to this volume are among the ones who are responsible for that happy circumstance. The contents of this book bear ample testimony to the enhanced and enlarged understanding and appreciation of ancient grammar that we now enjoy. Each article in this volume has something new to say about the history of linguistics in the classical period, and each author insists that we need to return to ancient texts time and time again and that we need to read them even more carefully. The rethinking so conspicuous in much of the recent scholarship in this field is pointing in the direction of a new historiographical model of Greek and Latin linguistic science. The text of this volume has also been published in Historiographia Linguistica XIII:2/3
Reviews / Votes
The excellence of this book rises from a paradox: though it is an account of linguistic theory and practice, it is a fine piece of philology in the wide sense one finds in German writers. [...] While the authors of the articles have the philologist's knack of thinking in the ancient mould imposed by their matter, they are not averse to rereading the ancient paradigms in light of modern linguistics, to explaining the ancient context of grammar through sociolinguistics, or to applying some of the lessons of sister disciplines, like ancient history. -- L.J. Kelly , Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 35.1 (1990).More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4529-8 (9789027245298)
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Content
1. Foreword; 2. Rethinking the History of Language Science in Classical Antiquity (by Taylor, Daniel J.); 3. Quadripertita Ratio: Bemerkungen zur Geschichte eines aktuellen Kategoriensystems (adiectio - detractio - transmutatio - immutatio) (by Ax, Wolfram); 4. La 'troisieme partie' de l'ars grammatica (by Baratin, Marc); 5. Apollonius and Maximus on the Order and Meaning of the Oblique Cases (by Blank, David L.); 6. Gellio grammatico e i suoi rapporti con l'ars grammatica romana (by Cavazza, Franco); 7. Stoic Syntax and Semantics (by Egli, Urs); 8. Genera verborum quot sunt?: Observations on the Roman Grammatical Tradition (by Hovdhaugen, Even); 9. Islands in the Stream: The Grammarians of Late Antiquity (by Kaster, Robert A.); 10. The Tekhne Grammatike of Dionysius Thrax: English Translation with Introduction and Notes (by Kemp, J. Alan); 11. Late Latin Grammars in the Early Middle Ages: A Typological History (by Law, Vivien A.); 12. Wie modern war die varronische Etymologie? (by Pfaffel, Wilhelm); 13. Herkunft und Entwicklung des terminus technicus piepsilon iodeltao : Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Entstehung von Fachterminologien (by Siebenborn, Elmar); 14. Latinitas, Hellenismos, 'Arabiyya (by Versteegh, Kees); 15. Master List of References; 16. Index Nominum Antiquorum