The Renaissance (1450-1600) & the 17th Century
Ideas reflected in modern computational linguistics
- Parts-of-speech (under the influence of other languages), Robins
113, 119, 120, 137-141, Integrals and particles (Robins 120)
- Empiricism vs rationalism (Robins, 128-129)
- Empiricism: Language descriptions from observation, Robins: 102
- Rule-based + observation cf rule based and statistically based
computational linguistics
- Vernaculars as rule governed - following rules though different from
Latin grammar (230 ff, Law)
- Julius Caesar Scaliger, 1484-1558 (Law 221-223)
- Francisco Sanchez de la Brozas (1523-1600) attacked the work of
Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) wrote example based rather than rule based
grammar, Law 262, 230
- Port Royal grammar and logic
- Forerunners: Sanctius Minerva, Campanella, Helwig, Juan Caramuel y
Lobkowitz (Law, 263)
- Generative grammar
- Universal grammar
- Logic based grammar
- The sign (H & T 94, HoL 378)
- [.ps] [.tex] Inclusion of pragmatics (H & T: Gricean maxims 106-107), HoL:
Deixis 379
- Extension and intension (called comprehension), HoL: 379
- Artificial languages
- Controlled language [.ps] (HoL 378, right column)
- "Interlingua" Leibniz (1646-1716): Universal Characteristic HoL:
381
- Bacon, Mersenne, Dalgarno, Wilkins (Robins 130-133)
- Ontology
- Wilkins (Law 263)[Chosen
by: Karin Cavallin]
- Multimodality
- Bacon, Hist of Ling, 376 [Chosen
by: Fredrik Kronlid]
- Contextual interpretation, Hobbes: (HoL 377)
- Parallel corpus of Lord's prayer (Law 270), Georg Stiernhelm:
Gospels in several languages (Law 260). All languages change
- Phonetics & phonology
- Scaliger (Law 221-223) Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente 1600 De Voce
(Law 223)
- Holder, Robins 118/136 Voiced/voiceless distinction
- The English School of Phonetics, Robins 135-136
- Tucker, described the schwa-sound in English, Robin 136
- IPA wannabe: Robins 137, 139
- Prosody: Murray, Robins 139
- Translation
- Dolet, translation theories and techniques, Robins 117
- Morphology
- Contact with Arabic grammar and Hebrew, morphologic root affix Law
278-279
- Free form vs bound form Christophorus Crinesius Grammar of Syriac, Law
250