Full Description
As each period in the history of the language sciences has chosen to focus on different key questions, the study of that history promises to open our eyes to the variety of interesting questions that can be asked, and answered - taking off the blinders of contemporary preoccupations. September 1-5, 2005, linguists from twenty-five countries gathered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to share their passion for the history of their discipline. This volume is a distillation of many fine contributions from that conference, shedding light on the many different approaches to the study of language.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements (by Kibbee, Douglas A.); 2. The natural: Its meanings and functions in the history of linguistic thought (by Joseph, John E.); 3. On grammatical gender as an arbitrary and redundant category (by Kilarski, Marcin); 4. Penser l'espace, penser l'espece: Modelisation des affinites linguistiques (by Klippi, Carita); 5. On the origins of the participle as a part of speech (by Swiggers, Pierre); 6. Grammar as a liberal art in antiquity (by Luhtala, Anneli); 7. Priscian's pedagogy: A critique of the Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo (by Taylor, Daniel J.); 8. L' horizon de retrospection du Mithridate de Conrad Gessner (1555) (by Colombat, Bernard); 9. Montaigne's view of skepticism and language in the Essais (by Marcondes, Danilo); 10. Competing models for a 17th century universal language: A study of the dispute between George Dalgarno and John Wilkins (by Subbiondo, Joseph L.); 11. La notion d'unite sonore dans les grammaires francaises des 17eme et 18eme siecles (by Fournier, Jean-Marie); 12. Une "Grammaire generale et raisonnee" en 1651 (1635?): Description et interpretation d'une decouverte empirique (by Auroux, Sylvian); 13. 'Analogy': The history of a concept and a term from the 17th to the 19th century (by Hassler, Gerda); 14. Une ecriture de l'histoire: La Lettre a M. Pinglin sur l'histoire de la science grammaticale (by Raby, Valerie); 15. Quels facteurs (linguistiques ou historiques) considerer dans l'accord en francais? Etude de certains cas dans le Journal de la langue francaise (1784) d'Urbain Domergue (by Choi, E-Jung); 16. Nicolas Beauzee: La cle inexploitee de la phonetique francaise (by Rey, Christophe); 17. Colonialism, scientific expeditions and linguistics in 19th century Brazil (by Altman, Cristina); 18. The concept of civilization in historic Brazilian linguistics (by Guimaraes, Eduardo); 19. The European linguistic tradition and early missionary grammars in Central and South America (by Breva-Claramonte, Manuel); 20. Steinthal and the limits of etymology: The special case of Chinese (by Christy, T. Craig); 21. An epistemological assessment of the Neogrammarian movement (by Leroux, Jean); 22. Privileged languages and others in the history of historical-comparative linguistics (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 23. The nationalist turn: Dutch linguistics and German philosophy in the 18th and early 19th centuries (by Rutten, Gijsbert); 24. Representations de l'autre: L'italien et les Italiens dans quelques dictionnaires bilingues des XVIIe-XVIIIe siecles (by Minerva, Nadia); 25. L' utile et l'agreable dans les methodes familieres et autres ouvrages utilises pour l'apprentissage du francais aux Pays-Bas (XVIIIe-XIXe siecles) (by Kok-Escalle, Marie-Christine); 26. La reformulation dans la lexicographie des XVIe-XIXe siecles: L'emergence de la syntaxe francaise (by Raus, Rachele); 27. Words and concepts for child language learning in late 19th versus late 20th century America (by Thomas, Margaret); 28. La lexicologie, un savoir scolarisable? (by Branca-Rosoff, Sonia); 29. Aspects de la linguistique prescriptive: Les perceptions des vocabulaires de specialite a travers des dictionnaires francais (XIXe et XXe s.) (by Candel, Danielle); 30. Semantique et analogie dans la tradition grammaticale arabe: La valeur des formes verbales (by Ayoub, Georgine); 31. Meaning by collocation: The Firthian filiation of corpus linguistics (by Leon, Jacqueline); 32. Kristeva on the encyclopedists: Linguistics, semanalysis, and the epistemology of Enlightenment science (by Arens, Katherine); 33. La preuve de Gaifman: Reflexions sur la methode de construction des grammaires categorielles (by Godart-Wendling, Beatrice); 34. Name index; 35. Subject index
