Insights into the History of Linguistics: Selected Papers from ICHoLS XV

by Savina Raynaud (Editor), Maria Paola Tenchini (Editor)

Overview

This volume collects a selection of papers concerning the history of linguistics spanning the centuries from the 17th to the 20th. These contributions were presented and debated at ICHo LS XV (Milan, 23 – 27 August 2021). The essays focus on various contexts across the modern and contemporary ages in Europe, Asia, and the United States. This collection offers an accurate exploration of linguistic topics and metalinguistic traditions across diverse historical and geographical settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788869774553
Publisher:	Mimesis International
Publication date:	07/31/2024
Series:	Literature | Language
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x (d)
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Savina Raynaud has been full professor of Philosophy and Theory of Language since 1994 and called by the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore in Milan in 1995. She teaches Semantics and Ontologies and Language Sciences; has been president of the Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio (2004-08); has founded a Research Centre in Computational Linguistics (CIRCSE) and a network for the History of Linguistic and Semiotic Thought (CISPELS).

Maria Paola Tenchini is a Researcher of General Linguistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia, where she teaches courses in General Linguistics and German Linguistics. Her scientific interests focus on the history of linguistics, particularly proto-pragmatics, the semantics of pejoratives, structures and functions of reported speech, and word order in German.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section 1: Modern and Contemporary Dialogues and Contexts

Le duel entre Meillet et Tesnière
Gabriel Bergounioux

Lingue, nazioni e confini nel carteggio di Hugo Schuchardt e Francesco D’Ovidio
Sandra Covino

Hu Yilu’s Re-Presentation of Comparative-Historical Linguistics in Early Nationalist China
Changliang Qu

Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911-2010) & Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) in the Mid-1950s: A Mediated Connection
Viggo Bank Jensen

Section 2: Grammars and Grammatical Notions in Their Histories

L’exemplification dans la Grammaire générale et raisonnée de Port-Royal
Bernard Colombat

Histoire des « particules » dans la grammaire française, 16ème-19ème siècles : quelques jalons
Bérengère Bouard

The History of the Notion of Word-Formation, the Philosophical Grammars and the “Problem of Time” in the 17th and the 18th Centuries
Luca Alfieri

Le matériau textuel des Elemens de la grammaire Françoise (1780) : à la recherche des sources de Lhomond
Sophie Piron

Grammaticalisation, Grammaticisation, Grammatisation, Grammation or the Motivations behind Linguistic Terminology
Martin Konvička

Contributors