Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century
Anneli Luhtala
Abstract This article deals with the development of pedagogical grammar from Late Antiquity to early modern period. The unrivalled authority for elementary was Donatus’ Ars minor, which provided a model numerous other works well into Its systematic presentation word classes offered basic framework, subsequent generations grammarians reworked and supplemented paradigms, Christian examples, vernacular glosses. Elements ancient grammatical genres, parsing regulae-grammars, were also integrated its method, commentaries continued be written on all levels teaching. Verse grammars peculiarly medieval innovation, being designed supplement study Donatus. most popular representative, Alexander de Villa Dei’s Doctrinale, received more than 300 editions between 1470 1520. introduction section syntax among major innovations grammar.
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