Writing in English, German, or French, more than 300 authors provide a historical description of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages within the relevant historical context. The gradually emerging institutions concerned with the study, organisation, documentation, and distribution are considered as well as those dealing with the utilisation of language related knowledge. Special emphasis has been placed on related disciplines, such as rhetoric, the philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, logic and neurological science.

"… a convincing collection of papers of high quality, impeccably edited and printed, and a pleasure to read." (Manfred Görlach, Linguistics 2004)

SYLVAIN AUROUX is Professor at the ENS Lettres et Sciences Humaines, University of Lyon, France. E.F.K. KOERNER is Professor at the Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. HANS-J. NIEDEREHE is Professor Emeritus for Romance Philology at the University of Trier, Germany. KEES VERSTEEGH is Professor at the Institute of the Middle East at the University of Nijmegen, The Nederlands.

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