Syntax and dialectic in carolingian commentaries on priscian’s<i>institutiones grammaticae</i>
Anneli Luhtala
Summary The present article deals with two aspects of linguistic study associated the reintroduction Priscian’s Institutiones in Carolingian Renaissance – infiltration logical concepts into description and initiation syntactic studies. In both these fields achievement ninth-century scholars marks a significant departure from grammatical tradition preceding centuries. Evidence for new orientation studies can be found mainly philosophical elaboration notions commentaries as well glosses to ; latter material is yet unedited. Sharing concern their philosopher contemporaries Aristotelian categories, grammarians not only elaborated work but searched continuously sources inspiration, elementary texts. Syntactic doctrine, which figures throughout discussion parts speech, start an object commentators. achieve interpretation doctrine peculiar them, placing special emphasis on certain points doctrine. An alternative approach analysis, applying dialectical subject predicate description, offered by De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Martianus Capella, employed at least one master concerned issues.
Historiographia Linguistica