The western classical tradition in linguistics
By: Keith Allan.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Equinox textbooks and surveys in linguistics
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oakville, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845536657
Subjects: Linguistics -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: List of tables; title: Preface; title: Preface to the second edition; title: Acknowledgments; title: Symbols and abbreviations used in the text; title: 1. Linguistics and the western classical tradition; title: 2. Plato on language; title: 3. Aristotle's legacy; title: 4. The stoics and Varro; title: 5. Quintilian, Dionysius, and Donatus: the start of a pedagogic tradition; title: 6. Apollonius and Priscian, the great grammarians among the ancients; title: 7. Prescriptivism from the early Middle Ages on; title: 8. 'General' or 'universal' grammar: from the Modistae to Chomsky; title: 9. Phonetics, phonology, and comparative philology; title: 10. Language and thought: from Epicurus until after Whorf; title: 11. Saussurean and functionalist linguistics: the study of language as human communication; title: 12. Paradigms for linguistic analysis: Bloomfieldian linguistics and the Chomsky revolution; title: 13. Linguistic semantics and pragmatics from earliest times; title: Epilogue; title: Life dates; title: References; title: Index.