Vivien Law

The History of Linguistics in Europe

From Plato to 1600

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics from ancient Greece up to the Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9780521563154
• ISBN-10: 0521563151
• Artikelnr.: 35451606

Autorenporträt

Vivien Law is Reader in the History of Linguistic Thought at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Trinity College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Getting ready to study the history of linguistics
2. Greek philosophy and the origins of western linguistics
3. Towards a discipline of grammar: the transition from philosophy
4. From literacy to grammar: describing language structure in the ancient world
5. Christianity and language
6. The early Middle Ages
7. The Carolingian Renaissance
8. Scholasticism: linking language and reality
9. Medieval vernacular grammars
10. The Renaissance: discovery of the outer world
11. And what happened next? Linguistics since 1600 - in brief
12. Becoming a historian of linguistics.