Diversions of Galway [[electronic resource] ] : papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Galway, Ireland, 1-6 September 1990 / / edited by Anders Ahlqvist ; in collaboration with Konrad Koerner, R.H. Robins, Irène Rosier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457761103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992
• ISBN: 1-283-31311-1; 9786613313119; 90-272-7722-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, , 0304-0720 ; ; v. 68
• Altri autori (Persone): AhlqvistAnders; KoernerE. F. K; RobinsR. H; Rosier-CatachIrène
• Disciplina: 410/.9
• Soggetti: Linguistics - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes four contributions in French and two in German.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: DIVERSIONS OF GALWAY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; List of Participants; Conference Committees; Conference Programme; Opening Address; The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatos Commentaries; Speculative Lexicography: Difficulties in Following the Historical Path of a Linguistic Idea; Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation; On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of Transitivity; Jean Charles Thiebault (de) Laveaux: The Revolt of a Jacobin Grammarian and Lexicographer against the Académie Française; The First Grammar of Frisian (1681)Latinisme ou gallicisme ? Les méthodes translinguistiques latin - français au XVIIIe siècle; The Hibernian Connection: Irish Grammaticography in Louvain; Harmonic Dictionaries and Grammars in Semitic Linguistics; A Grammar without a ; Tradition? Fernando de la Carrera's Arte de la lengua yunga (1644); Étude historiographique des Manières de Langage; L'Ordre Naturel and Charles Batteux: à bas les philosophes; Grammaire normative/grammaire descriptive dans la linguistique espagnole du XVTIe siècle; How to ""Improve"" a Language: The Case of Eighteenth Century Descriptions of GreenlandicLichtenberg on Language and Reason: One Aspect of the Crisis in German Enlightenment; John Wallis' Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653): The New Science and English Grammar; Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the Passive; Animal Language: a Chapter from the Controversy between Rationalism and Sensualism; The ""Poznan Schoor"" of Structural Linguistics; Salomon Stricker's Motor Theory of Language; Victor Henry et les lois phon(ét)iques; The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas' Theory of PhoneticsThe Beginning and Development of Persian Syntactic Descriptions; Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A Small History of Generative Grammar; Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language: Some Nineteenth-Century Views; ""Maschine"" vs. ""Organismus"". Einige Überlegungen zur Geistes- und Sprachwissen-schaftsgeschichte im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert; Zur Geschichtsschreibung der Sprechakttheorie: der Fall Reinach; Linguistics vs. Philology in an 1864 Student Paper by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay; Abstracts; Index Linguaram; Index NominumIndex Rerum
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains a selection of papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, dealing with subjects ranging from the classical period till the 20th century.