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Allan Keith

The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics English Keith Allan - 2nd ed - 2010 Equinox Publishing Ltd 2010 - viii,440 pages, ; soft bound 17x24 cm

Chapter 1: Linguistics and the Western Classical Tradition
Chapter 2: Plato on language
Chapter 3: Aristotle’s legacy
Chapter 4: The Stoics and Varro
Chapter 5: Quintilian, Dionysius, and Donatus: the start of a pedagogic tradition
Chapter 6: Apollonius and Priscian, the great grammarians among the ancients
Chapter 7: Prescriptivism from the early middle ages on
Chapter 8:General’ or ‘universal’ grammar: from the modistae to Chomsky
Chapter 9: Phonetics, phonology, and comparative philology
Chapter 10: Language and thought: from Epicurus until after Whorf
Chapter 11: Saussurean and functionalist linguistics: the study of language as human communication
Chapter 12: Paradigms for linguistic analysis: Bloom fieldian linguistics and the Chomsky revolution
Chapter 13: Linguistic semantics and pragmatics from earliest times

ISBN: 978-1-84558-663-7

Dewey Class. No.: 410 / ALL