Originally published: 2007.
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.
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The western classical tradition in linguistics by Keith Allan. ISBN 9781845536657. Published by Equinox Pub. in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
