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Speculative Grammar

Author(s): Jan Pinborg
Contributor(s): Stefan Dimitrov (Translator), Yasen Andreev (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, History of Philosophy, Logic, Special Branches of Philosophy, Semantics, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: speculative grammar; mode of signification; lexeme; dictio; part of speech; pars orationis; semantics

Summary/Abstract: Jan Pinborg’s article Speculative Grammar traces in a historical and problematical way basic questions of the semantic doctrine of modes of signifying (the theory of speculative grammars). Speculative grammars are investigated: (1) from their appearance and historical and conceptual ground (Aristotle and his Arabic commentators, Donatus, Priscian); (2) through the development and sophistication of the system of modes of signifying (considering in the same time its ontological and logical aspects); 3) to the theoretical criticism against them and the appearance of alternative semantic conceptions (Roger Bacon, Ockham, Buridan…). The importance of the modistic doctrine for the further development of the logic and theoretical grammar is pointed out. A particular emphasis is put on the semantic character of the speculative grammars, together with its systematical account.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2022
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 65-83
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian