The linguistic preoccupations of the glossators of the st gall priscian
Rijcklof Hofman
Summary The existence of a native Irish grammatical tradition suggests that the intensive study Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae by scholars which is attested to glosses in St Gall Priscian should have been occasion for contrastive analysis Latin and Old Irish. This not case, however, as apparent from glossators’ identification themselves with Latini their silence about usage. Evidence an original contribution linguistic thought may be found only use construe marks (syntactical glossing) vernacular calques terms. explained narrowly didactic focus upon forms.
Historiographia Linguistica