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Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of etymologia in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages. Etymologia is a fundamental procedure and discursive strategy in the philosophy and analysis of language in early medieval Latin grammar, as well as in Biblical exegesis, e...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amsler, Mark, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1989.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; 44.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of etymologia in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages. Etymologia is a fundamental procedure and discursive strategy in the philosophy and analysis of language in early medieval Latin grammar, as well as in Biblical exegesis, encyclopedic writing, theology, and philosophy. Read through the frame of poststructuralist analysis of discourse and the philosophy of science, the procedure of the ars grammatica are interpreted as overlapping genres (commentary, glossary, encyclopedia, exegesis) which use different verbal or extra.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027286031
9027286035
9786613092830
6613092835
1283092832
9781283092838
ISSN:0304-0720 ;