History of linguistics 1996 II

David Cram, Andrew Linn, Elke Nowak (eds)

Benjamins - Amsterdam

1996

This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion of problems in translating ancient grammatical texts.