HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS I996 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- ICHOLS VII SELECTION COMMITTEE -- ICHOLS VII CONFERENCE PROGRAMME -- I. TRANSLATING ANCIENT GRAMMATICAL TEXTS -- A Round-Table Discussion -- TRANSLATING ANCIENT GRAMMATICAL TEXTS -- II. CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL -- KING ALFRED'S APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LATIN -- REFERENCES -- NOTIONS OF COMPOUNDING IN PRISCIAN'S INSTITUTIONES -- REFERENCES -- TIME, THE VERB AND ALBERTUS MAGNUS -- REFERENCES -- THE RELEVANCE OF THE DISCUSSION OF THE NATURE OF SIGNS IN ANCIENT SCEPTICISM -- REFERENCES -- FROM FRENCH-LATIN TO LATIN-FRENCH RECONSTRUCTING A MEDIEVAL DICTIONARY SOURCE -- 1. The Glossarium gallico-latinum -- 2. The new order -- 2.1 The reversal process -- 2.2 AIphabetization and derivation -- 2.3 Separation of French glosses -- 3. The GGL and the dictionaries of Le Ver and Le Talleur -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE OBJECT-LANGUAGE / METALANGUAGE DISTINCTION IN ST. AUGUSTINE'S WORKS DE DIALECTICA AND DE MAGISTRO -- REFERENCES -- ON THE METRICAL PRISCIAN MAJOR A METHODOLOGICAL DILEMMA -- REFERENCES -- III. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- ONOMASIOLOGICAL DICTIONARIES (900-1700) THEIR TRADITION AND THEIR LINGUISTIC STATUS -- 1. The term -- 2. The tradition -- 3. The use -- 4. Linguistic status -- 5. The date-line -- REFERENCES -- SUBSTANTIAL VS. RELATIONAL ANALOGY IN SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LINGUISTIC THOUGHT -- REFERENCES -- LEIBNIZ ON RATIONAL GRAMMAR -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The philosophical language -- 2. The function of rational grammar -- 3. Some results of rational grammar -- 3.1 The parts of speech -- 3.2 The particles -- 4. Appendix: a historiographical lesson -- REFERENCES -- THE SEMANTICS OF JOHANN ALSTED -- REFERENCES.

THE 'GENERALL GRAMMER OF ORIENTALL TONGUES' AND UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SCHEMES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN THE CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIAN RAVIUS -- 1. Hebrew and universal language projects -- 2 Ravius' grammar of oriental languages -- 3. From the 'primitive ' universal tongue to the universal grammar -- 4. Reason versus memory, and the easiness of the Oriental language -- 5. From the 'radix' to the 'alphabet of meaning' -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INTERCHANGE OR INFLUENCE GROTIUS' EARLY LINGUISTIC IDEAS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Language attitude and elaboration of function -- 2. Language qualities: antiquity -- 3. Sources and influence: Simon Stevin -- 4. New discoveries: Gothic and Persian -- 5 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 'AN ESSAY TOWARDS A REAL CHARACTER, AND A PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE' (1668) TEXT/CONTEXTS -- REFERENCES -- IV. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- DIVERSITY OF HUMAN LANGUAGES AND UNIVERSALS OF THOUGHT AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DEBATE IN THE BERLIN ACADEMY -- 1. The institutional background -- 2. Prize topics -- 2.1 Topic I: Relativity and subjectivity of languages as means of cognition and communication -- 2.2 Topic II: The anthropological foundations and the origin of language -- 2.3 Topic III: Comparing and assessing languages -- REFERENCES -- 'A LANGUAGE MORE PECULIARLY CIRCUMSTANCED THAN ANY THAT HAS YET APPEARED' ENGLISH AS A 'PERFECT' LANGUAGE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LINGUISTIC THOUGHT -- 0. Introduction -- 1. 'Language' in the 1771 Britannica -- 1.1 'Transpositive' and 'analogous' idioms -- 1.2 The 'genius' of language -- 2 English as a 'primitive' language -- 3. The 'politics of language' in the Britannica -- 4. Eighteenth-century 'comparative linguistics' -- 5 Women as linguistic corrupters -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHARLES BERTRAM'S ROYAL ENGLISH-DANISH GRAMMAR THE LINGUISTIC WORK OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRAUD -- REFERENCES.

WILLEM BILDERDIJK (1756-1831) AND THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE A DUTCH LINGUIST BETWEEN TWO WORLDS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) -- 2. Bilderdijk and eighteenth and nineteenth-century linguistics -- 2.1 Ten Kate -- 2.2 schola Hemsterhusiana -- 2.3 Grimm -- 3. Bilderdijk the poet -- 4. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE FOR EVERYONE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FEMALE GRAMMARIANS, ELSTOB, FISHER AND BEYOND -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Elizabeth Elstob -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Method -- 1.3 Achievment -- 2. Anne Fisher -- 2.1 Method -- 2.2 Achievement -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCEs -- V. NINETEENTH CENTURY -- LA PHILOSOPHIE LINGUISTIQUE DE MAINE DE BIRAN ET LA NAISSANCE EN FRANCE DE LA PSYCHOLOGIE SCIENTIFIQUE -- 1. Fin d'un malentendu? -- 2. Un idéologue peu orthodoxe -- 3. La synergie ouìe-voix: origine psychologique du langage -- 4.Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- THE TEACHING OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FERNANDO DE ARTEAGA Y PEREIRA AND HIS PRACTICAL SPANISH, A GRAMMAR OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE (1902) -- REFERENCES -- IS A LINGUISTIC THEORY NEEDED FOR SUCCESSFUL APPLIED LINGUISTICS? THE ESTONIAN EXPERIENCE -- 1. The Estonian language renewal -- 2. The use or misuse of paronymy -- 3. Controversies in the interpretation of Estonian quantity -- REFERENCES -- THE WORKS OF ERNST WILHELM BRÜCKE (1819-1892) AND JOHANN N. CZERMAK (1828-1873) LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF PHONETICS -- REFERENCES -- 'ORIENTALISM' AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VOLNEY PRIZE IN LINGUISTICS -- 1. Volney 's voyage to Egypt and Syria -- 2. Volney's Ruines -- 3. Volney's support for collective efforts -- 4. Volney and the French history of linguistics -- 5. Judges -- REFERENCES -- THE PRAGMATIC TRIANGLE GARDINER, BÜHLER AND REICHLING ON THE WORD AND THE SENTENCE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Gardiner's paradigmatic theory of language.

2. Bükler's pragmatic theory of language -- 3. Reichling's pragmatic theory of language -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- "ICH ERWARTE MIT UNGEDULD DAS ABSOLUTE ENDE MEINER ELENDEN EXISTENZ" THE 'IMAGE' OF JAN BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY IN HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH HUGO SCHUCHARDT -- 0. Introduction -- 1. 'Mixed' languages -- 2. Schuchardt and Baudouin on "Lautgesetze" -- 3. Slavic linguistics and philology -- 4. Hopes, illusions, combativity, and resignation -- REFERENCES -- GUSTAV GERBER AND 'KANTIAN LINGUISTICS' PRESUPPOSITIONS OF THOUGHT AND LINGUISTIC USE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The life and work of Gustav Gerber -- 1.1 The reception of Gerber 's work -- 1.2 Gustav Gerber: His life and linguistic philosophy -- 1.3 Gerber's affinities with hermeneutics -- 1.4 Language and art in Gerber 's Die Sprache als Kunst -- 2. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- VI. TWENTIETH CENTURY -- SAUSSURE'S 'ANAGRAMS' BLUNDER OR PARALANGUAGE? -- REFERENCES -- PREDECESSORS OF COGNITIVE SEMANTICS AND SPEECH ACT THEORY? -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Preliminary delineations -- 2. Cognitive semantics and speech act theory in historical perspective -- 3. Double predecessorship? Bühler, Gardiner, Reichling -- 4. Bühler and Gardiner -- 4.1 Metaphor -- 4.2 Proto-speech act theory -- 5. Reichling -- 5.1 Reichling and cognitive semantics -- 5.2 Reichling and speech act theory -- 5.3 How to characterize Reichling? -- REFERENCES -- MAIS QUE FAIT BAR-HILLEL QUAND "LE SOLEIL SIFFLE"? -- 1. Un significatif oubli du sens -- 2. Valeurs de vérité et conception du calcul -- 2.1 Substitutions isogènes et apparentées directes -- 2.2 La problématique substitution apparentée indirecte -- 2.3 "Le soleil siffle" dans la grammaire bidirectionnelle -- 3. Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- LA MÉCANISATION DU DICTIONNAIRE DANS LES PREMIÈRES EXPÉRIENCES DE TRADUCTION AUTOMATIQUE (1948-1960).

1. Mécanisation du dictionnaire dans les traductions mot a mot (1948-54) -- 2. Mécanisation du dictionnaire dans les experiences de traduction multilingue: les premieres expériences du groupe de l'institut mécanique de Moscou (1956) -- 3. L'approche par corpus et les dictionnaires de traduction (1957) -- 4. Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- THE FIRST GALICIAN ACADEMY DICTIONARY AND ITS THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- 1. The lexicographical project of the Royal Galician Academy -- 2. The innovation of tradition in the Galician Academy Dictionary -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SCHOLARS IN SCHOOLS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACTS -- CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL -- SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES -- EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- NINETEENTH CENTURY -- TWENTIETH CENTURY -- CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE TRADITIONS IN LINGUISTICS WORLDWIDE -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF TOPICS.