The Greeks

Ideas reflected in modern computational linguistics

• Parts of speech. Thrax and others, e.g Law p. 59
• 'Words get their meaning from the context'. The StoicsRevise reason for this topic
• Speech acts. Protagoras, Aristotle
• Sentence constituents; nominal and verbal components.
• Aristotle's modes of explanation (cf. Pustejovsky). Aristotle
• Propositional logic. The Stoics
• Predicate logic. Aristotle
• Dependencies (in the Dependency Grammar sense). Aristotle, Plato, Thrax, Apollonius
• The sign (cf. Saussure and HPSG). The Stoics, Hovdhaugen p. 45 [pdf], [tex] Meaning in the Stoic tradition, by Karin Cavallin
• Complete and defective meanings (cf. information rich constituents). The Stoics, Hovdhaugen p. 45
• The study of sounds, and morphology. Thrax and others
• Aspect. Aristotle
• Tense.
• Logos, onoma, and rhema - uniform concepts? Plato, Aristotle, and others
• ?Rhetoric (cf. modern theories of discourse and discourse structure).

Ideas that might be worth reviving

• Various ideas used in rhetoric (e.g might be used in advanced dialogue systems and other communicative applications).
  
  

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