LING 425 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Railways Act 1921, Stoicism, Square Enix Europe
30 Jan 2020
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Hw 1: will be posted tuesday, jan 16th, 2020 & due week after. [form of a stone tablet kept record of monitorial transactions, food recipes] Ideas formulated from ancient greece: summary, roughly started from 5th 1st century b. c. Important for the greeks: no dogmas about linguistics, very diverse array of perspectives on language, plato had unique perspective of language, etc. , focused around these 2 issues; If you had a word, then the word has a form therefore has a meaning. If you take linguistics seriously, then they are the first true grammarians in ancient greece: highly successful & influential, problem, no original stoic writings that have survived to this day, know nothing about them directly about their work. Dyonisius thrax (170 90 bc: morphology but no syntax, said to be first serious grammarian, roughly around circa 100 bc produced the panicle linguistics book called, ** philosophia: philo = love & sophia = wisdom.
