Sensible Words: Linguistic Practice in England, 1640-1785 |
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Language and the Grammar of Things | 1 |
Language and the Grammar of the Mind | 43 |
Theories of Language and the Grammar | 78 |
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Aarsleff alphabet Arnauld assumptions Bayly Beck chapter characters Charles Gildon Comenius Comenius's common contemporary context Dictionary discourse discussion distinctive Dryden early eighteenth century eighteenth century emphasis English Grammar English Language English linguists English Tongue epistemological Essay etymology express Francis Lodwick George Dalgarno Gildon goal grammarians Greenwood Harris human idea of language important invented John Wallis John Wilkins Johnson Jones language texts Latin learning letters literary language Locke Locke's logic Loughton Lowth meaning method mind Monboddo nature Noah Webster original orthoepy orthography pedagogy period philosophical philosophy of language Port-Royal Practical Grammar Priestley principles pronunciation proposals rational relations represent Rhetorical Grammar rules Samuel Hartlib sense sentences seventeenth seventeenth-century linguists Sheridan significant social sounds speaking spelling study of language syllables syntactic syntax Theory of Language things Thomas Sheridan thought tion universal grammar universal language visual vocal Wallis Wilkins's William Kenrick words writes