DIVERSIONS OF GALWAY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- REFERENCES -- List of Participants -- Conference Committees -- Conference Programme -- Opening Address -- The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatos Commentaries -- REFERENCES -- Speculative Lexicography: Difficulties in Following the Historical Path of a Linguistic Idea -- REFERENCES -- Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation -- REFERENCES -- 1. PRIMARY SOURCES -- 2. SECONDARY SOURCES -- On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of Transitivity -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. APOLLONIUS DYSCOLUS -- 2. PRISCIAN -- REFERENCES -- Jean Charles Thiebault (de) Laveaux: The Revolt of a Jacobin Grammarian and Lexicographer against the Académie Française -- 1. HIS LIFE AND WORK -- 2. LAVEAUX' IMPORTANCE AS A LEXICOGRAPHER AND CRITIC OF THE ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE -- REFERENCES -- The First Grammar of Frisian (1681) -- SIZE AND SCOPE -- INTENDED AUDIENCE -- THE DATE OF THE LANGUAGE -- AUTHORSHIP -- REFERENCES -- Latinisme ou gallicisme ? Les méthodes translinguistiques latin - français au XVIIIe siècle -- 2. LES INTERLINEÁIRES -- 2.1. Principe -- 2.2. Schématisation des données -- 2.3. ANALYSE DES DONNEES -- 3. LA QUESTION DE LA LANGUE DE REFERENCE -- 3.1. Le traitement des deux langu -- 3.3. IDIOTISME, LATINISME, GALLICISME -- REFERENCES -- The Hibernian Connection: Irish Grammaticography in Louvain -- REFERENCES -- Harmonic Dictionaries and Grammars in Semitic Linguistics -- REFERENCES -- A Grammar without a Tradition? Fernando de la Carrera's Arte de la lengua yunga (1644) -- REFERENCES -- Étude historiographique des Manières de Langage -- 1. HISTOIRE DES IDEES LINGUISTIQUES, HISTOIRE DE LA LANGUE ET HISTOIRE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT DES LANGUES ETRANGERES -- 2. MANIÈRES DE LANGAGE, COLLOQUES, DIALOGUES.

3. MDL, VOCABULAIRES, RECUEILS DE LETTRES MODÈLES ET GRAMMAIRES -- 4. LE CORPUS: CRITÈRES DE SELECTION -- 5. LES CARACTERISTIQUES SECONDAIRES DES MDL -- 5.1 LE PUBLIC VISE PAR LES MDL -- 5.2 LA NATURE DE LA LANGUE PRESENTEE DANS LES MDL -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- I. TEXTES -- II. ETUDES -- L'Ordre Naturel and Charles Batteux: à bas les philosophes -- REFERENCES -- Grammaire normative/grammaire descriptive dans la linguistique espagnole du XVTIe siècle -- REFERENCES -- How to "Improve" a Language: The Case of Eighteenth Century Descriptions of Greenlandic -- REFERENCES -- Lichtenberg on Language and Reason: One Aspect of the Crisis in German Enlightenment -- REFERENCES -- John Wallis' Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653): The New Science and English Grammar -- REFERENCES -- Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the Passive -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DATA FOR THE PASSIVE AND A COMPARISON WITH THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN DATA -- 3. THE DUTCH GRAMMATICAL TRADITION -- 4. BORROWING FROM THE LATIN GRAMMATICAL TRADITION: THE DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE VERB -- 5. DESCRIPTION OF THE PASSIVE DATA -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Animal Language: a Chapter from the Controversy between Rationalism and Sensualism -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II.THE CONTEXT OF THE MEIER-PUTT DEBATE -- II.1 The Epistemological Context -- II.2 The Linguistic Context -- III.THE MEIER-PUTT DEBATE -- III.1 Georg Friedrich Meier -- III.2 Johann Jakob Plitt -- IV. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- The "Poznan Schoor" of Structural Linguistics -- SOUND CHANGE -- THE SURFACE : DEEP PROCESS -- THE PHONETIC : SUBSTITUTION PROCESS -- DISTINCTIVE MORPHOLOGY OR DlACRISIS -- REFERENCES -- Salomon Stricker's Motor Theory of Language -- REFERENCES -- Victor Henry et les lois phon(ét)iques -- REFERENCES.

The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas' Theory of Phonetics -- REFERENCES -- The Beginning and Development of Persian Syntactic Descriptions -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II.THE BEGINNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF PERSIAN TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR -- III. LINGUISTIC THEORIES AND PERSIAN GRAMMAR -- REFERENCES -- Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A Small History of Generative Grammar -- REFERENCES -- Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language: Some Nineteenth-Century Views -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. WILLEM GERARD BRILL (1811-1896) -- 3. WILHELMUS WESSELS (1833-1900) -- 3. H. E. MOLTZER (1836-1895) -- 5. SOME FINAL REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- "Maschine" vs. "Organismus". Einige Überlegungen zur Geistes- und Sprachwissen-schaftsgeschichte im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert -- 1. BACK TO THE FUTURE - ODER: VOM 3:SYSTEMBEGRIFF ZURÜCK ZUM ORGANISMUS? -- 2. DAS MACHINA-MODELL UND SEINE IMPLIKATIONEN -- 3. DAS ORGANISMUSMODELL -- 4. UND NOCH EINMAL DIE FRAGE: VOM "ORGANISMUS" ÜBER DAS "SYSTEM" ZURÜCK ZUM "ORGANISMUS"? -- LITERATUR -- Zur Geschichtsschreibung der Sprechakttheorie: der Fall Reinach -- 1. METHODOLOGISCHE VORÜBERLEGUNGEN ZUM THEMA SPRECHHANDLUNGSTHEORIE -- 2. ZUR GESCHICHTSSCHREIBUNG DER SPRECHHANDLUNGSTHEORIE: REINACHS THEORIE DER SOZIALEN AKTE -- 2.1 Das Versprechen -- 2.2 Die Wesensmerkmale sozialer Akte -- 3. SCHLUßBEMERKUNGEN -- LITERATUR -- Linguistics vs. Philology in an 1864 Student Paper by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay -- REFERENCES -- Abstracts -- Forms of Discourse, Linguistics, Literary Theory, and History Writing -- Skinner and Chomsky Thirty Years Later -- B. H. Smart - a Nineteenth-Century Contribution to the Concept of Phrase-Structure Grammar -- Anton Marty - Seine Stellung in der Sprachphilosophie der 19. Jarhrhumderts -- Laudes Hispaniaeand the Renaissance Conception of Language.

Les Avatars de la grammaire dans le Cours de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure -- The Oldest British Treatise upon Linguistics: Leonard Cox's De erudienda iuventute -- Current Historiographical Research Projects in West Germany.The 'Bio-Bibliographical Handbook of... 18th Century' and Other Documentational Research Projects -- La gramática general (1847) de I. Nuñez de Arenas: un ejemplo de la influencia de J. Harris en España -- Le CNRS et le développement de la linguistique -- Jacques Teyssier et la notion de cas dans les langues germaniques -- Joachim Heinrich Campe Revisited: Some Corrections to the Stereotype of "German 18th-Century Purist" -- Le Profane et le religieux dans la genèse du comparatisme -- Paradigm Change and Paradigm Conflict in the Study of Contact Languages -- Attitudes to Language Change and Language History in Eighteenth-Century Scotland -- One Distinctive Feature of French Linguistic Thought: The Metaphorical Nature of Human Languages -- Gehirn und Sprache um die Wende vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert: Franz Joseph und der 'sens du langage' -- The Predominance of the Presence. A Plea for a Particular View on the History of Linguistics -- Annotated Bibliography on German Theory of Orthography and Grammar from the 16th to the 18th Century -- Rudolf von Raumer(1815-1876) and the Development of Sound Physiology -- Nabataean and North Arabian Writing Systems: History and New Approaches -- The Subconscious and Social in Saussure -- Reason, Usage and Development of Historical Linguistics in the 16th Century -- On the Stoic Origin of the Grammatical Notion 'ABSOLUTIO' -- L'Argument linguistique dans la Methodus de Jean Bodin (1566) -- The Laurels of Linguistic Scholarship: The Prix Volney and its Contestants -- Roots and Implications of Cognitive Semantics -- The Componential Semantics of Ramón Llull.

The Study of the Paradigmatic Dimension of Language: An Attempt at Reconstruction -- Metalanguage in a Medieval Bilingual Dictionary -- The Early History of Romani Linguistics (1760 to 1799). Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo and the Indian Origin of the Gypsy Language and People -- Schematism and Meaning -- Linguistic Dynamics: Expressivity and Semantic Change in Heinz Werner's Psychology of Language -- Sur la Formation de quelques catégories de la grammaire ancienne -- Hobbes's Influence on the Leibnizian Project of a Universal Language -- Some Features of Comenius' Conception of Language -- Aristotle's Thoughts on Language - an Outgrowth of an "Intellectual Climate" -- Reconnaissance et occultation à l'université : le cas de Georges Gougenheim -- Grammatica Illyrica, an 18th Century English Grammar from Bavaria -- The Invisible Hand in the History of Language -- Karl Ferdinand Becker on When - and What Sort of - Grammar is Needful -- William Séwel and Thomas Dyche as Teachers of English -- Au revers de l'Histoire de la linguistique : la cryptographie -- Latin Declensions and Conjugations: From Varro to Priscian -- Showing the Fly the Way Out of the Fly-Bottle (Or, why Theorists who Ignore the History of Linguistic Ideas do so at their Peril) -- Structuralism in the Early Works of Saussure -- Arab and Western Approaches to Syntax: The Conditional Clause -- General Linguistics in Poland between 1918 and 1939 -- Index Linguaram -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum.