The western classical tradition in linguistics/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Oakville, CT:
Equinox Publishing Ltd,
2010
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| Edition: | 2nd expanded ed. |
| Series: | Equinox textbooks and surveys in linguistics
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols and abbreviations used in the text
- Ch. 1. Linguistics and the Western Classical Tradition
- Ch. 2. Plato on language
- Ch. 3. Aristotle's legacy
- Ch. 4. The stoics and Varro
- Ch. 5. Quintilian, Dionysius, and Donatus : the start of a pedagogic tradition
- Ch. 6. Apollonius and Priscian, the great grammarians among the ancients
- Ch. 7. Prescriptivism from the Early Middle Ages on
- Ch. 8. 'General' or 'universal' grammar : from the Modistae to Chomsky
- Ch. 9. Phonetics, phonology, and comparative philology
- Ch. 10. Language and thought : from Epicurus until after Whorf
- Ch. 11. Saussurean and functionalist linguistics : the study of language as human communication
- Ch. 12. Paradigms for linguistic analysis : Bloomfieldian linguistics and the Chomsky revolution
- Ch. 13. Linguistic semantics and pragmatics from earliest times
- Epilogue
- Life dates
- References
- Index.