The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics

by Keith Allan

Book Overview

The Western Classical Tradition in linguistics extends from Ancient Greece to the 21st century and has spread from Europe to the other four inhabited continents. It is a story of successive stages of language study, each building upon, or reacting against, the preceding period. There is a theoretical track passing through Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics to the scholastics of the later middle ages; on to the vernacular grammarians of the renaissance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845536657
• ISBN13: 9781845536657
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"