Publications

Authors:

Cotticelli, Paola

Title:

“Constructio and related terms in Medieval grammars: toward a theory of syntax

Year:

2021

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Perspectives on Language and Linguistics. Essays in honour of Lucio Melazzo

Publisher:

Palermo University Press Springer

Page numbers:

93-115

Keyword:

constructio, regimen, syntactic construction, theory of syntax, Medieval grammars

Short description of contents:

Between the eleventh and the twelfth century, a consistent termi- nology develops to denote certain syntactical relations between words, like “dependency”. This concerns the relation between the predicate and its arguments as well as the prepositions and their nouns, or, in a noun phrase or finally in a verbal phrase, between subject and predi- cate. The elaboration of a set of terms coming from the Late Latin tradi- tion and an innovated conception of the role of grammars culminates in the syntactic theory of the Modistae. As Covington (1984: 42) and later Kneepkens (1990: 140 and passim) have already claimed, at the center of the metalinguistic reflection lies the term constructio with its history and network of related terms. I devote this part of my research to my esteemed friend Lucio, who shares with our research group1 the troubles of the intriguing history of the beginning of (modern) syntac- tic thought in the Middle Ages and its intertwinements with rhetoric.

Product ID:

124710

Handle IRIS:

11562/1056823

Last Modified:

November 6, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Cotticelli, Paola, “Constructio and related terms in Medieval grammars: toward a theory of syntax Perspectives on Language and Linguistics. Essays in honour of Lucio Melazzo , Palermo University Press Springer , 2021 , pp. 93-115

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