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May 6, 2002 · Thomas of Erfurt. Thomas of Erfurt was the most influential member of a group of later medieval philosophers known as the speculative grammarians or Modistae (Modists), after the central place they assigned to the modi significandi (modes of signification) of a word in their analyses of human discourse. The notion that a word, once it has been ...
For the most part, their working methods are inductive, based on data from heterogeneous sources: corpora; constructed examples; historical evidence; experimental results; speakers’ unguarded slips of the tongue; and the language of children, second-language learners, and people living with aphasia and other language disorders.
Aug 28, 2018 · The main sources on grammarians, in addition to their own works, are to be found, for the Greeks, in the Souda ’s biographical entries (a Byzantine encyclopedic dictionary from the end of the 10th century), Sextus Empiricus (Against the Professors), and Diogenes Laërtius (Lives of the Philosophers); for the Latins, in Suetonius (De grammaticis e...
May 21, 2009 · In contrast, according to The Right View, there is no distinction between direct and indirect evidence for grammatical theories. There are just different sources of evidence that may be more or less useful in our current state of knowledge.
Feb 17, 2021 · Instead, the debate has reverted to inappropriate “what works” discourses. This article discusses these discourses and the need to re-imagine why and how we teach grammar, drawing on sustained and cumulative research evidence.
- Debra Myhill
- 2021
Jun 17, 2021 · Dropped into conversation, historically and contemporaneously, it is likely to elicit the view that young people today aren’t taught grammar as they used to be. More recently the alleged decline is said to have started in the 1960s, when “creativity” took over from “formal English”.
Sep 7, 2016 · Recently, though, cognitive scientists and linguists have abandoned Chomsky’s “universal grammar” theory in droves because of new research examining many different languages—and the way young...
