Grammar West to East : the investigation of linguistic meaning in European and Chinese traditions This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia – the Graeco Roman and the Sinitic – as well as their interaction in the modern era. It locates the emergence of language analysis in the development of writing systems and examines the cultural and political functions fulfilled by traditional language scholarship. Moving into the modern period and focusing specifically on the study of “grammar” in the sense of morph syntax lexico grammar it traces the transformation of “traditional” Latin grammar from the viewpoint of its adaptation to Chinese and discusses the development of key concepts used to characterize and analyze grammatical patterns Acknowledgments Briefing Key issues and organisational features of this book Prelude Framing the problem of language and meaning Part I Traditions of language study: Graeco Roman vis à vis Sinitic Chapter 1 Language writing and metaphors for language Snapshot 1 Dialectic; Analogy v. anomaly Chapter 2 Language in education and the foundations of linguistic scholarship Snapshot 2 Ordering of words; Language as manifestation of the way Chapter 3 The discovery of language history Snapshot 3 Characters and order of universe; Grammatical form as expression of mind Chapter 4 From philology to linguistics Interlude Establishing a modern paradigm Part II The making of modern grammatics: developing tools for the analysis of wording Chapter 5 From “(single) articulation” to “double articulation”: meaning ↔ wording ↔ sound Chapter 6 “Parts of speech” and “word classes”: defining basic categories for grammatical analysis Chapter 7 “Word grammar” and “clause grammar”: separating morphological from syntactic patterning Chapter 8 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations: structure and system Postlude The long 20th century of linguistics Debriefing The history of linguistics and the study of language References