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'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi.' : A critical edition.
Title:
'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi.' : A critical edition.
Author:
Magnus, Pseudo-Albertus.
ISBN:
9789027281418
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1 online resource (229 pages)
Series:
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; v.15

Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
Contents:
PSEUDO-ALBERTUS MAGNUS QUAESTIONES ALBERTI DE MODIS SIGNIFICANDI -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE QUAESTIONES ALBERTI -- GRAMMAR AS A SCIENCE -- LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS -- MODELS OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS -- MOTUS IN GRAMMAR -- REGIMEN AND REGERE -- PASSIONES ORATIONIS -- AUTHORSHIP -- TEXTS AND EDITION -- QUAESTIONES ALBERTI DE MODIS SIGNIFICANDI -- QUAESTIO PRIMA: UTRUM GRAMMATICA SIT SCIENTIA -- QUAESTIO SECUNDA: QUAERITUR QUID EST SUBIECTUM IN GRAMMATICA -- QUAESTIO TERTIA: QUAERITUR QUID PRIMUM SIT ET MINIMUM EX QUO INCIPIT CONSIDERATIO GRAMMATICAE -- QUAESTIO QUARTA: QUAERITUR UTRUM POSSIBILE EST VOCEM IMPONI AD SIGNIFICANDUM -- QUAESTIO QUINTA: UTRUM MODI SIGNIFICANDI SINT IN VOCE TANQUAMIN SUBIECTO? VEL IN IPSA RE? -- QUAESTIO SEXTA: UTRUM MODI SIGNIFICANDI ET MODI INTELLIGENDI ET MODI ESSENDI SUNT IDEM -- QUAESTIO SEPTIMA: QUAERITUR UTRUM PARTES ORATIONIS DISTINGUUNTUR PER SIGNIFICATUM VEL PER MODUM SIGNIFICANDI -- QUAESTIO OCTAVA: UTRUM MODI SIGNIFICANDI ORIUNTUR A PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM -- QUAESTIO NONA: UTRUM MODI SIGNIFICANDI ACCIDENTALES CAUSANTUR A MODIS SIGNIFICANDI ESSENTIALIBUS -- QUAESTIO DECIMA: QUAERITUR QUID SIT PRINCIPIUM CONSTRUCTIONS UTRUM SIGNIFICATUM VEL MODUS SIGNIFICANDI -- QUAESTIO UNDECIMA: QUAERITUR UTRUM IN VERBIS PRIMAE ET SECUNDAE PERSONAE INTELLIGITUR NOMINATIVUS CASUS. -- QUAESTIO DUODECIMA: QUAERITUR UTRUM NOMINATIVUS CASUS NOMINIS VEL PRONOMINIS INTELLIGITUR IN VERBIS PRIMAE ET SECUNDAE PERSONAE. -- QUAESTIOTREDECIMA: QUAERITUR UTRUM NOMEN ADIECTIVUM POSSIT SUPPONERE, UT SIC DICENDO ALBUS CURRIT -- QUAESTIO QUARTA DECIMA: QUAERITUR DE CONSTRUCTIONE NOMINATIVI CUM VERBO UTRUM NOMINATIVUS REGATUR A PARTE ANTE EX VI PERSONAE VEL EX VI SIGNIFICATIONS.

QUAESTIO QUINTADECIMA: SECUNDO QUAERITUR UTRUM NOMINATIVUS A PARTE POST REGATUR A VERBO EX VI SIGNIFICATIONIS COPULANTIS VEL EX VI PERSONAE -- QUAESTIO SEXTA DECIMA: QUAERITUR UTRUM VOCATIVUS CASUS POTEST CONSTRUI CUM VER BO RATIONE SUPPOSITI. -- QUAESTIO SEPTIMA DECIMA: QUAER1TUR UTRUM ABLATIVUS POSITUS IN DESIGNATIONE CONSEQUENTIAE POTEST PONI ABSOLUTE -- QUAESTIO OCTAVA DECIMA: QUAERITUR UTRUM INFINITIVUS MODUS POTEST SUPPONERE -- QUAESTIO NONA DECIMA: QUAERITUR UTRUM VERBUM POTEST IMPERSONARI -- QUAESTIO VICESIMA PRIMA: QUAERITUR SUB QUA PARTE ORATION1S DEBENT GERUNDIVA CONTINERI -- END NOTES -- Indexes.
Abstract:
This book provides a critical edition, translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus, the authorship is debated.The format of the twenty-one questions of this text follows the standard pattern of the time: after stating the question, the author cites as argumenta opinions with which he does not agree, gives his own answer, and then refutes the argumenta.For the author of these questions, three issues are paramount: the scientific status of grammar, the problem of universals, and the 'structure of the device' through which language was generated.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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