History of Linguistics, 1996: From classical to contemporary linguistics

• Author(s): David Cram, Andrew Robert Linn, Elke Nowak,
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
• Pages: 385
• ISBN_13: 9789027245830
  ISBN_10: 9027245835
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion of problems in translating ancient grammatical texts. The remainder of the volume is arranged in chronological sections, with contributions as follows. II. Classical and Medieval; III. Seventeenth Century; IV. Eighteenth Century; V. Nineteenth Century; VI. Twentieth Century.