SANCTIUS' THEOR Y OF LANGUAGE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF RENAISSANCE LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE HERITAGE OF ARS GRAMMATICA -- 1.0. SANCTIUS' LIFE AND THE 16TH-CENTURY GRAMMATICAL HERITAGE -- 1.1 Biographical Sketch of Franciscus Sanctius (1523-1600 -- 1.2 The Grammatical Tradition before Sanctius -- 2.0 THE GRAECO-ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL TRADITIONS -- 2.1 The Graeco-Roman Tradition -- 2.2 The Medieval Tradition -- 3.0 GRAMMATICAL THEORY IN THE RENAISSANCE -- 3.1 The general intellectual climate -- 3.2 Laurentius Valla (1407 - 57) -- 3.3 Thomas Linacre (1460-1524) -- 3.4 Julius Caesar Scaliger ( 1484-1558 -- 3.5 Peter Ramus (1515-72) -- 4.0 THE JUDAEO-ARABIC TRADITION -- 4.1 Historical background -- 4.2 The tripartite division of speech -- 4.3 Arabic views on language genesis -- 4.4 The structural approach to language by Arab and Jewish grammarians -- PART II. SYNOPSIS OF THE 1587 MINERVA -- 5.0 BOOK I - THE PARTS OF SPEECH -- 5.1 Book I, Chapter 1: Introduction -- 5.2 Book I, Chapter 2: Division of Grammar -- Parts of Speech -- 5.3 Book I, Chapter 3: Accent, 'Figura', and 'Species -- 5.4 Book I, Chapter 4: Number -- 5.5 Book I, Chapter 5: Nouns -- 5.6 Book I, Chapter 6: Case -- the Sixth Case in Greek -- 5.7 Book I, Chapter 7: Gender -- Common and Proper Nouns -- 5.8 Book I, Chapter 8: Declension -- 5.9 Book I, Chapter 9: Irregular Noun -- 5.10 Book I, Chapter 10: Diminutives -- 5.11 Book I, Chapter 11: Comparatives and Superlatives -- 5.12 Book I, Chapter 12: Verbs -- the Impersonal -- the Infinitive -- 5.13 Book I, Chapter 13: Mode -- 84 Finite Tenses -- Commands -- 5.14 Book I, Chapter 14: The Infinitive as an Impersonal -- 5.15 Book I, Chapter 15: Participles -- 5.16 Book I, Chapter 16: Prepositions.

5.17 Book I, Chapter 17: Adverbs -- 5.18 Book I, Chapter 18: Conjunctions -- 6.0 BOOK II - THE SYNTAX OF NOUNS -- 6.1 Book II, Chapter 1: The 'Constructio' of Nouns -- 6.2. Book II, Chapter 2: The Nominative -- Co-occurence of Nominatives -- 6.3. Book II, Chapter 3: The Genitive -- the Sequence Verb-Genitive -- 6.4 Book II, Chapter 4: The Dative, its Semantic Value -- 6.5. Book II, Chapter 5: The Accusative -- the Accusative with and without Preposition -- Co-occurence of Accusatives -- 6.6 Book II, Chapter 6: The Vocative -- the Analysis of Valla -- 6.7 Book II, Chapter 7: The Sixth Case or Case of the Preposition -- the So-called Ablative Absolute -- 6.8 Book II, Chapter 8: The Adjective-Noun Combination -- 6.9 Book II, Chapter 9: The 'Constructio' of Relatives -- 'Hic' and 'Ille' -- 6.10 Book II, Chapter 10: The 'Constructio' of Comparatives -- 6.11 Book II, Chapter 11: Superlatives and their Non-Comparative Value -- 6.12 Book II, Chapter 12: 'Reciprocals' -- the Analyses of Valla, Budaeus, and Quintilian -- 6.13 Book II, Chapter 13: Possessives -- the Genitives of 'mei', 'tui', 'sui' -- 7.0 Book III - THE SYNTAX OF VERBS AND PARTICLES -- 7.1 Book III, Chapter 1: The 'Constructio ' of Verbs -- on the Non-Existence of Impersortais -- 7.2 Book III, Chapter 2: Classification of Verbs -- on the Non-Existence of Neuter and Common Verbs -- 7.3 Book III, Chapter 3: Alphabetical List of Active Verbs -- 7.4 Book III, Chapter 4: Passive Verbs -- Arguments against Other Grammarians -- 7.5 Book III, Chapter 5: Substantive Verbs -- 'Mea interest' and 'tua refert' -- 7.6 Book III, Chapter 6: The Infinitive or Impersonal -- Infinitives as Nouns -- 'Tempus est abire' Follows Usag -- 7.7 Book III, Chapter 7: Latin 'cupio esse divitem' and Greek 'cupio esse dives' -- 7,8 Book III, Chapter 8: Passive Meaning of the Forms in '-dus7 -- Forms in '-di' and '-do'.

7.9 Book III, Chapter 9: The Supine in '-um' -- the False Supine in '-u' -- 7.10 Book III, Chapter 10: Tense Values o fParticiples -- 7.11 Book III, Chapter 11: The Forms 'amaturum esse', 'amatum ire'and 'iri', and 'amaturu' -- 7.12 Book III, Chapter 12: Prepositions -- their Position in the Sentence -- 7.13 Book III, Chapter 13: Adverbs -- Adverbs as Nouns -- 7.14 Book III, Chapter 14: Conjunctions -- Arguments against Other Grammarians -- 8.0 BOOK IV: FIGURATIVE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- 8.1 Figures of 'Constructio' -- 8.2 Figures of 'constructio ' (continued) -- 8.3 Semantics -- PART III. SANCTIUS' LINGUISTIC THEORY -- 9.0 PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO LANGUAGE -- 9.1 General observations -- 9.2 Philosophy of language. -- 9.3 'Causa' and 'ratio'. -- 10.0 LOGICAL STRUCTURE AND LOGICAL RULES -- 10.1 Logical structure. -- 10.2 Construction of logical structures -- 10.3 Logical rules. -- 10.4 Rule ordering. -- 11.0 THE PARTS OF SPEECH AND THE ROLE OF MEANING -- 11.1 The parts of speech. -- 11.2 The role of meaning. -- 12.0 BASIC SEMANTIC POSTULATES -- 13.0 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ENDNOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.