Poslední úprava: Bc. et Bc. Andrea Mudrová (13.01.2020)
The general goal of the course is to provide a survey of the history of linguistics as a series of
chapters from general European (and American) intellectual history, with an emphasis on links to
related fields of inquiry. Grading is based on a written test at the end of the term.
Poslední úprava: Bc. et Bc. Andrea Mudrová (13.01.2020)
The general goal of the course is to provide a survey of the history of linguistics as a series of
chapters from general European (and American) intellectual history, with an emphasis on links to
related fields of inquiry. Grading is based on a written test at the end of the term.
Deskriptory -
Poslední úprava: Bc. et Bc. Andrea Mudrová (13.01.2020)
Topics covered:
• The beginnings: early reflections on language • Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Alexandrian philology • Roman grammarians: the Greek inheritance and the emerging systematic grammars (Varro, Quintilian, artes and regulae, Donatus and Priscian) • The Christian dimension of words, meaning and grammar (St Augustine) • The Middle Ages: reassessing and repositioning the tradition (insular grammars, the Carolingian renaissance, modistic grammar, pedagogical grammar) • Renaissance and humanism: the empirical turn and the beginnings of vernacular grammar • The early modern period: the return of philosophical issues in the study of language (artificial languages, abstract approaches to natural languages; Leibniz, Wilkins) • The origins of language: the Cartesian view and reactions to it • The typology and the classification of languages: the rationalist tradition and its opponents; syntactic structure and the structure of thought • The comparative and typological study of languages; The beginnings of Finno-Ugric and Indo-European comparative linguistics (Sajnovics, Jones, Schlegel, Bopp) • Historical linguistics as a maturing discipline (Grimm, Schleicher, Humboldt) • The Neogrammarian movement and the great debates of the late nineteenth century (Brugmann, Verner, Osthoff, Paul) • The horizon at the turn of the century (dialectology, semantics, theoretical phonology, syntax and psychology: Schmidt, Schuchardt, Wundt, Baudouin de Courtenay; institutionalisation and professionalisation) • Saussure and his place in the history of linguistics (the Mémoire, the Cours and their afterlife) • Early structuralism and its major trends in Europe and America (functionalism vs. descriptive linguistics; the Prague School, French functionalism) • The second half of the twentieth century: generative linguistics, its variants and its competitors
Poslední úprava: Bc. et Bc. Andrea Mudrová (13.01.2020)
Topics covered: • The beginnings: early reflections on language • Ancient Greece: Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Alexandrian philology • Roman grammarians: the Greek inheritance and the emerging systematic grammars (Varro, Quintilian, artes and regulae, Donatus and Priscian) • The Christian dimension of words, meaning and grammar (St Augustine) • The Middle Ages: reassessing and repositioning the tradition (insular grammars, the Carolingian renaissance, modistic grammar, pedagogical grammar) • Renaissance and humanism: the empirical turn and the beginnings of vernacular grammar • The early modern period: the return of philosophical issues in the study of language (artificial languages, abstract approaches to natural languages; Leibniz, Wilkins) • The origins of language: the Cartesian view and reactions to it • The typology and the classification of languages: the rationalist tradition and its opponents; syntactic structure and the structure of thought • The comparative and typological study of languages; The beginnings of Finno-Ugric and Indo-European comparative linguistics (Sajnovics, Jones, Schlegel, Bopp) • Historical linguistics as a maturing discipline (Grimm, Schleicher, Humboldt) • The Neogrammarian movement and the great debates of the late nineteenth century (Brugmann, Verner, Osthoff, Paul) • The horizon at the turn of the century (dialectology, semantics, theoretical phonology, syntax and psychology: Schmidt, Schuchardt, Wundt, Baudouin de Courtenay; institutionalisation and professionalisation) • Saussure and his place in the history of linguistics (the Mémoire, the Cours and their afterlife) • Early structuralism and its major trends in Europe and America (functionalism vs. descriptive linguistics; the Prague School, French functionalism) • The second half of the twentieth century: generative linguistics, its variants and its competitors
Literatura -
Poslední úprava: Bc. et Bc. Andrea Mudrová (13.01.2020)
Recommended readings:
Amsterdamska, Olga (1987) Schools of Thought. Dordrecht: Reidel
Anna Morpurgo Davies (1998) Nineteenth-century linguistics. London: Longman
Covington, Michael (1984) Syntactic Theory in the High Middle Ages. Cambridge: CUP
Gardt, Andreas (1999) Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft in Deutschland. Berlin/New York:Walter de Gruyter
Law, Vivien (1997) Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages. London: Longman
Matthews, Peter H. (1994) Greek and Latin linguistics. In Giulio C. Lepschy (ed.) History of Linguistics. London: Longman, volume II. 1–133
Matthews, Peter H. (1993) Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky. Cambridge: CUP
Matthews, Peter H. (1998) A Short History of Structural Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP
Murray, Stephen (1994) Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America: A Social History. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Padley, G. A. (1985, 1988) Grammatical Theory in Western Europe 1500–1700. Trends in Vernacular Grammar. 2 vols. Cambridge: CUP
Percival, W. Keith (1975) The grammatical traditionand the rise of the vernaculars. In Historiography of Linguistics (Current Trends in Linguistics 13., ed.Thomas A. Sebeok) The Hague: Mouton. 231–275
Pinborg, Jan (1967) Die Entwicklung der Sprachtheorie im Mittelalter. Münster-Kopenhagen
Pinborg, Jan (1975) Classical Antiquity: Greece. In Historiography of Linguistics (Current Trends in Linguistics 13., ed. Thomas A. Sebeok) The Hague: Mouton; 69–126
Pinborg, Jan (1988) Speculative grammar. In NormanKretzmann et al. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP. 254–269
Rosier, Irène (1983) La grammaire spéculative des Modistes. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille
Simone, Raffaele (1998) The Early Modern Period. In Giulio C. Lepschy (ed.) History of Linguistics. London: Longman, volume III. 149–236
Tavoni, Mirko (1998) Renaissance linguistics: western Europe. In Giulio C. Lepschy (ed.) History of Linguistics. London: Longman, volume III. 1–108
Vivien Law (2003) The history of linguistics in Europe from Plato to 1600. Cambridge: CUP
Wilbur, Terence H. (ed. 1977) The Lautgesetz-Controversy: A Documentation (1885–86). Amsterdam: Benjamins
Poslední úprava: Bc. et Bc. Andrea Mudrová (13.01.2020)
Recommended readings:
Amsterdamska, Olga (1987) Schools of Thought. Dordrecht: Reidel
Anna Morpurgo Davies (1998) Nineteenth-century linguistics. London: Longman
Covington, Michael (1984) Syntactic Theory in the High Middle Ages. Cambridge: CUP
Gardt, Andreas (1999) Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft in Deutschland. Berlin/New York:Walter de Gruyter
Law, Vivien (1997) Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages. London: Longman
Matthews, Peter H. (1994) Greek and Latin linguistics. In Giulio C. Lepschy (ed.) History of Linguistics. London: Longman, volume II. 1–133
Matthews, Peter H. (1993) Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky. Cambridge: CUP
Matthews, Peter H. (1998) A Short History of Structural Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP
Murray, Stephen (1994) Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America: A Social History. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Padley, G. A. (1985, 1988) Grammatical Theory in Western Europe 1500–1700. Trends in Vernacular Grammar. 2 vols. Cambridge: CUP
Percival, W. Keith (1975) The grammatical traditionand the rise of the vernaculars. In Historiography of Linguistics (Current Trends in Linguistics 13., ed.Thomas A. Sebeok) The Hague: Mouton. 231–275
Pinborg, Jan (1967) Die Entwicklung der Sprachtheorie im Mittelalter. Münster-Kopenhagen
Pinborg, Jan (1975) Classical Antiquity: Greece. In Historiography of Linguistics (Current Trends in Linguistics 13., ed. Thomas A. Sebeok) The Hague: Mouton; 69–126
Pinborg, Jan (1988) Speculative grammar. In NormanKretzmann et al. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP. 254–269
Rosier, Irène (1983) La grammaire spéculative des Modistes. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille
Simone, Raffaele (1998) The Early Modern Period. In Giulio C. Lepschy (ed.) History of Linguistics. London: Longman, volume III. 149–236
Tavoni, Mirko (1998) Renaissance linguistics: western Europe. In Giulio C. Lepschy (ed.) History of Linguistics. London: Longman, volume III. 1–108
Vivien Law (2003) The history of linguistics in Europe from Plato to 1600. Cambridge: CUP
Wilbur, Terence H. (ed. 1977) The Lautgesetz-Controversy: A Documentation (1885–86). Amsterdam: Benjamins
