Full Description
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Potsdam 2008) which are especially representative of the concerns of the conference and its thematic range. The reflection about language and the individual languages has characterized cultures since ancient times and has brought forth different traditions of the language sciences. The contributions cover the period from antiquity to contemporary history. In addition to terminological and social history approaches, they also include research results based on corpora or which reconstruct theoretical approaches. More than other scholars, linguists are turning to the history of their science for answers to current questions. This underscores the value of the history of language sciences for understanding the present state of linguistics and its development. Interdisciplinarity necessary for the research of many issues and manifestations of language makes historical reflections on the disciplines indispensable.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Hassler, Gerda); 3. Part I. Methodological considerations, linguistics and philology; 4. Du Corpus representatif des grammaires et des traditions linguistiques au Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux (by Colombat, Bernard); 5. The 'floating' linguistic sign (by Christy, T. Craig); 6. 'A term of opprobrium': Twentieth century linguistics and English philology (by Walmsley, John B.); 7. Methode als Grenze?: Zur Spaltung von Philologie und Sprachwissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert (by Wolf, Johanna); 8. Part II. Antiquity; 9. Grammatical doxography in Antiquity: The (hi-)stories of the parts-of-speech system (by Swiggers, Pierre); 10. Uber die Bezeichnung des Indikativs bei den romischen Grammatikern des 1. und 2. Jh. (by Mazhuga, Vladimir I.); 11. Rewriting the history of the language sciences in classical antiquity (by Taylor, Daniel J.); 12. Part II. Renaissance linguistics; 13. Elements of a philosophy of language in Claudio Tolomei's Il Cesano de la lingua Toscana (by Gensini, Stefano); 14. La conception de l'ordre des mots dans la Grammatica Latina de Caspar Finck et Christoph Helwig (by Lecointre, Claire); 15. The earliest stages of Persian-German language comparison (by Van Hal, Toon); 16. Part IV. Seventeenth and eighteenth century; 17. European conceptions of writing from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century (by Neis, Cordula); 18. Lessons from literary theory: Applying the notion of transtextuality (Genette 1982) to early modern German grammars (by McLelland, Nicola); 19. Nachahmung und Schopfung in der Barockgrammatik: Ch. Gueintz liest W. Ratke (by Djubo, Boris); 20. Leibniz as lexicographer? (by Considine, John); 21. Du verbe actif au verbe transitif: Transitivite et complementation dans les grammaires francaises, 1660-1863 (by Bouard, Berengere); 22. Metaphors in metalinguistic texts: The case of ob-servations and remarks on the French language (by Ayres-Bennett, Wendy); 23. Les Methodes au XVIIe siecle: Un outil composite. Irson, Lancelot, Nicole (by Delesalle, Simone); 24. A propos des regles dans les grammaires francaises de l'age classique: Forme, fonction, statut (le cas de l'accord du participe passe) (by Fournier, Jean-Marie); 25. La phrase expliquee aux sourds-muets: Remarques sur la syntaxe chiffree de l'abbe Sicard (by Raby, Valerie); 26. The place of spatial case forms in early Estonian, Latvian and Finnish grammars (by Kilgi, Annika); 27. Part V. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 28. Aproximaciones a la ensenanza del analisis: Los Principios del analisis lojico de Ramon Merino (1848) (by Garcia Folgado, Maria Jose); 29. A difficult case: A sketch of the different interpretations of the concept of 'case' in the early Chinese grammatical studies (by Pellin, Tommaso); 30. Relecture jakobsonienne de la distinction saussurienne langue/parole: De la constitution d'un concept a l'acceptation d'un objet donne (by Toutain, Anne-Gaelle); 31. Ernst Cassirer's and Benedetto Croce's theories of language in comparison (by Schmid, Sarah Dessi); 32. Tradition versus grammatical traditions: Considerations on the representation of the Russian language (by Archaimbault, Sylvie); 33. An early sociolinguistic approach towards standardization and dialect variation: G. G. Kloeke's theory of Hollandish expansion (by Hamans, Camiel S.J.N.); 34. Gender and the language scholarship of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in the context of mid twentieth-century American linguistics (by Thomas, Margaret); 35. When categories go back to parts of speech (by Godart-Wendling, Beatrice); 36. 'Cultural morphology': A success story in German linguistics (by Knobloch, Clemens); 37. Interjections: An insurmountable problem of structural linguistics?: The case of early Soviet structuralism (by Velmezova, Ekaternia); 38. L'espace linguistique en voie de (de)multiplication (by Klippi, Carita); 39. Z. S. Harris and the semantic turn of mathematical information theory (by Leon, Jacqueline); 40. Name index; 41. Subject index
