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The architecture of grammar : studies in linguistic historiography in honor of Pierre Swiggers Ghent University
The Role of Vernacular Proverbs in Latin Language Acquisition, c. 1200-1600. An Exploratory Study KU Leuven
© John Benjamins Publishing Company. This paper examines the continuities and discontinuities in language teaching between the Middle Ages and the early modern era by drawing attention to the role of bilingual Latin-vernacular proverb collections in premodern education, a subject that has hitherto been neglected in the historiography of linguistics. The focus is on bilingual collections that are of Dutch origin. The paper aims to show that there ...
Historiographia linguistica Ghent University
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Historiographia linguistica Ghent University
Meaning and Reference in Aristotle's Concept of the Linguistic Sign Ghent University
To Aristotle, spoken words are symbols, not of objects in the world, but of our mental experiences related to these objects. Presently there are two major strands of interpretation of Aristotle's concept of the linguistic sign. First, there is the structuralist account offered by Coseriu (Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie. Von den Anfangen bis Rousseau, 2003 [1969], pp. 65-108) whose interpretation is reminiscent of the Saussurean sign concept. A ...
Change from above in a 16th-century corpus of Tuscan correspondence : the spread of the codified form of the masculine determiner Ghent University
Sixteenth-century Italy saw the codification of a literary variety based on archaic Florentine. This process was at first guided by non-Tuscans, and the codified variety did not entirely coincide with the variety spoken at the time in Florence, going back instead to the language of fourteenth-century Florentine authors. This archaising variety was at first rejected by Tuscan writers as inauthentic, but in the course of the century attitudes ...