JOHN WILKINS AND 17TH-CENTURY BRITISH LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Location of Illustrations: -- INTRODUCTION -- I. JOHN WILKINS (1614-1672): LIFE AND WORK -- Notes -- Bibliography -- II. WILKINS AND THE 17TH-CENTURY RECONCILIATION OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND LANGUAGE -- JOHN WILKINS' ESSAY TOWARD A REAL CHARACTER: ITS PLACE IN THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EPISTEME -- DR. WILKINS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY -- THE ROSS-WILKINS CONTROVERSY -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- JOHN WILKINS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S REFORM OF PROSE STYLE -- I -- II -- III -- III THE SOURCES OF WILKINS' PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE -- COMENIUS AND THE REAL CHARACTER IN ENGLAND -- I -- II -- III -- THE SOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT OF JOHN WILKINS' PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE -- APPENDIX -- ON THE SOURCES OF JOHN WILKINS' PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE (1668) -- LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS AND 17TH-CENTURY UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SCHEMES -- REFERENCES -- IV. THEORY AND PRACTICE IN WILKINS' PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE -- 'PHILOSOPHICAL' GRAMMAR IN JOHN WILKINS' 'ESSAY' -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ON THE PROJECT OF A UNIVERSAL CHARACTER -- II -- III -- THE REAL CHARACTER OF BISHOP WILKINS -- The Lord Prayer -- WILKINS' NATURAL GRAMMAR THE VERB PHRASE -- 0. Introduction -- 1.0 The Role of Grammar in Wilkins' Philosophical Language -- 2.0 Integrals and Particles -- 3.0 The Verb in Wilkins' Grammar -- 3.1 Predicative Element of the Verb -- 3.2 Tense -- 4.0 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- V.WILKINS' CLASSIFICATION OF REALITY -- JOHN WILKINS AND NOAH'S ARK -- JOHN WILKINS' LINGUISTIC VIEWS -- JOHN WILKINS' THEORY OF MEANING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SEMANTIC MODEL -- REFERENCES -- JOHN WILKINS' AND WILLIAM LLOYD'S ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY (1668): TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE, AND SYSTEMATICALLY DEFINED, LEXICON -- REFERENCES.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN WILKINS IN THE HISTORY OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION -- His life -- His book -- Wilkins' classification schedule -- Derivatives of the radicals -- The particles -- The alphabetical dictionary -- Notational symbols -- The significance of the Essay -- REFERENCES -- VI. WILKINS' LEGACY -- JOHN WILKINS' ESSAY(1668) CRITICS AND CONTINUATORS -- 1. The Revisory Group for Wilkins' "Essay " -- 2. The Three Main Aims of the Group -- 3. Later Critics and Continuators -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SELECTBIBLIOGRAPHY -- A. Writings by John Wilkins* -- B. Secondary Sources -- INDEX OF BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES.