The western classical tradition in linguistics /
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| Author / Creator: | Allan, Keith, 1943- |
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| Edition: | 2nd expanded ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2010. |
| Description: | xviii, 440 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Equinox textbooks and surveys in linguistics Equinox textbooks and surveys in linguistics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8062863 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols and abbreviations used in the text
- Ch. 1. Linguistics and the Western Classical Tradition
- Ch. 2. Plato on language
- Ch. 3. Aristotle's legacy
- Ch. 4. The stoics and Varro
- Ch. 5. Quintilian, Dionysius, and Donatus : the start of a pedagogic tradition
- Ch. 6. Apollonius and Priscian, the great grammarians among the ancients
- Ch. 7. Prescriptivism from the Early Middle Ages on
- Ch. 8. 'General' or 'universal' grammar : from the Modistae to Chomsky
- Ch. 9. Phonetics, phonology, and comparative philology
- Ch. 10. Language and thought : from Epicurus until after Whorf
- Ch. 11. Saussurean and functionalist linguistics : the study of language as human communication
- Ch. 12. Paradigms for linguistic analysis : Bloomfieldian linguistics and the Chomsky revolution
- Ch. 13. Linguistic semantics and pragmatics from earliest times
- Epilogue
- Life dates
- References
- Index.
