G L Bursill-Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 733878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G L Bursill-Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | G L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bursill-Hall |
| SIGNATURE | BURSILL-HALL G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Byzantine Grammarians: Their place in history . By R. H. Robins
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Medieval Priscian commentaries: Introduction and bibliography
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Quaestiones supra Prisciano minori . Gentile da Cingoli , Romana Martorelli Vico
A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts
The History of Grammar in the Middle Ages: Collected Papers
1. Author's Preface 2. Introduction (by Bursill-Hall, Geoffrey L.) 4. Select Bibliography 5. 1. Studies on Priscian in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 6. I: Petrus Helias and his Predecessors 7. 2. Studies on Priscian in the Twelfth Century 8. II: The School of Ralph of Beauvais 9. 3. Absoluta: The Summa of Petrus Hispanus on Priscianus Minor 10. 4. The Introduction to the Artes in the Twelfth Century 11. 5. Hugutio and Petrus Helias 12. 6. Th…
Medieval donatus commentaries
The rich treasure-house of unedited grammatical material, some of which has already been reported, held in various manuscript collections dating from the Middle Ages contains a number of versions of the grammatical works of Donatus and more than 200 commentaries, most of them anonymous, on various aspects of the Donatus corpus. The purpose of these notes is to draw attention to these commentaries dating from the period 11th - 15th centuries and t…
Johannes De Garlandia: Additional Manuscript Material
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Teaching Grammars of the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Tradition
Grammar enjoyed a privileged position in the medieval curriculum; along with the other members of the Trivium it provided a thorough foundation which probably accounts for much of the intellectual success of the medieval schoolmen. This article discusses the material used in the Middle Ages for the teaching of grammar and aims at an exhaustive list of pedagogical material which can still be found, for the most part unedited, in European manuscrip…
Johannes De Garlandia - Forgotten Grammarian and the Manuscript Tradition
John of Garland (fl. early 13th century) was a prolific writer of grammatical treatises and teaching texts and yet he has been almost completely neglected by the historian of linguistics. He was however recognised in his own day and for some time afterwards as a scholar and teacher of some importance. This paper seeks to list as exhaustively as possible the many versions of his treatises and texts still extant in the manuscript collections of Eur…
Grammatica Speculativa
The History of Linguistics
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The linguistic analysis of North American Indian songs
This paper attempts to extend a theory of description for songs belonging to non-literate societies; this theory was first described by R. H. Robins, of the Department of Linguistics of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London and a former colleague of the late J. R. Firth. The author has tried to develop the theory a little further and has applied it to the analysis of two Haida love songs
Some remarks on deixis
This paper is concerned with so-called demonstratives. Languages use various devices to point out or indicate things; the demonstratives are but one of these devices. Much that has been written on this problem of deixis is confused and misleading because the criteria traditionally used in describing the different devices for pointing out or indicating have been for the most part notional or mentalistic; it behoves the theoretical linguist to seek…
Mediaeval grammatical theories
This article is an essay by a modern linguist in one aspect of the history of grammar. Grammar was a compulsory subject in the curriculum of the mediaeval university, and the golden age of scholasticism produced a number of interesting theories of grammar; this article is concerned with the theory of one group in particular, i.e. the Modistae, speculative grammarians who were active in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Modistae wrote t…
From Anglo-Canadian Publications
Levels’ Analysis: J. R. Firth’s Theories of Linguistic Analysis (Part II)
It seems certain that all modern theories of linguistic analysis accept the existence of levels of analysis, at least the two levels of phonology and grammar. Firth’s theory shows nothing new in this, but it is radically different in its dismissal of the ascending hierarchy of phonology-morphology-syntax. In theories of ‘levels analysis’ the question of hierarchy usually arises, and London theory is not free from controversy on this, although Fir…
Levels Analysis: J. R. Firth’s Theories of Linguistic Analysis
This paper should be considered a sequel to the paper read at the meetings of the Canadian Linguistic Association at Kingston in June 1960 and to be published in the Proceedings of the Learned Societies of Canada; in the first paper, the linguistic theories of J. R. Firth (and which are summarised in section 1.0. 1.1, and 1.11 of this paper) were outlined, and in this article the procedures at the different levels (Firth himself has used the term…
French Quadri-Phonematic Clusters
The structural linguist has recently begun to pay more and more attention not only to the sequences of the phonemes of a language but also to their capacity for combination. Trubetzkoy said: “La neutralisation des oppositions phonologiques est sûrement le phénomène le plus important, mais nullement le seul important dans le domaine de la théorie des combinaisons”. Much has been done on the distribution of these phonemic combinations and their fun…
Frequency of Consonant Clusters in French
In a recent article in Language, Sol Saporta pointed out that structural linguists had, for the most part, analysed sequences of phonemes but had ignored the frequencies of combinations. He goes on to produce an interesting and workable hypothesis, i.e. “the average frequency of a consonant cluster is a function of the difference between the phonemes in the cluster; low frequencies are expected for clusters which are either extremely similar or e…
Teaching Grammars of the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Tradition
Grammar enjoyed a privileged position in the medieval curriculum; along with the other members of the Trivium it provided a thorough foundation which probably accounts for much of the intellectual success of the medieval schoolmen. This article discusses the material used in the Middle Ages for the teaching of grammar and aims at an exhaustive list of pedagogical material which can still be found, for the most part unedited, in European manuscrip…
Johannes De Garlandia - Forgotten Grammarian and the Manuscript Tradition
John of Garland (fl. early 13th century) was a prolific writer of grammatical treatises and teaching texts and yet he has been almost completely neglected by the historian of linguistics. He was however recognised in his own day and for some time afterwards as a scholar and teacher of some importance. This paper seeks to list as exhaustively as possible the many versions of his treatises and texts still extant in the manuscript collections of Eur…
Medieval donatus commentaries
The rich treasure-house of unedited grammatical material, some of which has already been reported, held in various manuscript collections dating from the Middle Ages contains a number of versions of the grammatical works of Donatus and more than 200 commentaries, most of them anonymous, on various aspects of the Donatus corpus. The purpose of these notes is to draw attention to these commentaries dating from the period 11th - 15th centuries and t…
Johannes De Garlandia: Additional Manuscript Material
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Grammatica Speculativa
Medieval Priscian commentaries: Introduction and bibliography
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Frequency of Consonant Clusters in French
In a recent article in Language, Sol Saporta pointed out that structural linguists had, for the most part, analysed sequences of phonemes but had ignored the frequencies of combinations. He goes on to produce an interesting and workable hypothesis, i.e. “the average frequency of a consonant cluster is a function of the difference between the phonemes in the cluster; low frequencies are expected for clusters which are either extremely similar or e…
French Quadri-Phonematic Clusters
The structural linguist has recently begun to pay more and more attention not only to the sequences of the phonemes of a language but also to their capacity for combination. Trubetzkoy said: “La neutralisation des oppositions phonologiques est sûrement le phénomène le plus important, mais nullement le seul important dans le domaine de la théorie des combinaisons”. Much has been done on the distribution of these phonemic combinations and their fun…
Levels Analysis: J. R. Firth’s Theories of Linguistic Analysis
This paper should be considered a sequel to the paper read at the meetings of the Canadian Linguistic Association at Kingston in June 1960 and to be published in the Proceedings of the Learned Societies of Canada; in the first paper, the linguistic theories of J. R. Firth (and which are summarised in section 1.0. 1.1, and 1.11 of this paper) were outlined, and in this article the procedures at the different levels (Firth himself has used the term…
Levels’ Analysis: J. R. Firth’s Theories of Linguistic Analysis (Part II)
It seems certain that all modern theories of linguistic analysis accept the existence of levels of analysis, at least the two levels of phonology and grammar. Firth’s theory shows nothing new in this, but it is radically different in its dismissal of the ascending hierarchy of phonology-morphology-syntax. In theories of ‘levels analysis’ the question of hierarchy usually arises, and London theory is not free from controversy on this, although Fir…
From Anglo-Canadian Publications
Some remarks on deixis
This paper is concerned with so-called demonstratives. Languages use various devices to point out or indicate things; the demonstratives are but one of these devices. Much that has been written on this problem of deixis is confused and misleading because the criteria traditionally used in describing the different devices for pointing out or indicating have been for the most part notional or mentalistic; it behoves the theoretical linguist to seek…
Mediaeval grammatical theories
This article is an essay by a modern linguist in one aspect of the history of grammar. Grammar was a compulsory subject in the curriculum of the mediaeval university, and the golden age of scholasticism produced a number of interesting theories of grammar; this article is concerned with the theory of one group in particular, i.e. the Modistae, speculative grammarians who were active in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Modistae wrote t…
The linguistic analysis of North American Indian songs
This paper attempts to extend a theory of description for songs belonging to non-literate societies; this theory was first described by R. H. Robins, of the Department of Linguistics of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London and a former colleague of the late J. R. Firth. The author has tried to develop the theory a little further and has applied it to the analysis of two Haida love songs
The History of Linguistics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Grammatica Speculativa
Johannes De Garlandia - Forgotten Grammarian and the Manuscript Tradition
John of Garland (fl. early 13th century) was a prolific writer of grammatical treatises and teaching texts and yet he has been almost completely neglected by the historian of linguistics. He was however recognised in his own day and for some time afterwards as a scholar and teacher of some importance. This paper seeks to list as exhaustively as possible the many versions of his treatises and texts still extant in the manuscript collections of Eur…
Teaching Grammars of the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Tradition
Grammar enjoyed a privileged position in the medieval curriculum; along with the other members of the Trivium it provided a thorough foundation which probably accounts for much of the intellectual success of the medieval schoolmen. This article discusses the material used in the Middle Ages for the teaching of grammar and aims at an exhaustive list of pedagogical material which can still be found, for the most part unedited, in European manuscrip…
Johannes De Garlandia: Additional Manuscript Material
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The History of Grammar in the Middle Ages: Collected Papers
1. Author's Preface 2. Introduction (by Bursill-Hall, Geoffrey L.) 4. Select Bibliography 5. 1. Studies on Priscian in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 6. I: Petrus Helias and his Predecessors 7. 2. Studies on Priscian in the Twelfth Century 8. II: The School of Ralph of Beauvais 9. 3. Absoluta: The Summa of Petrus Hispanus on Priscianus Minor 10. 4. The Introduction to the Artes in the Twelfth Century 11. 5. Hugutio and Petrus Helias 12. 6. Th…
Medieval donatus commentaries
The rich treasure-house of unedited grammatical material, some of which has already been reported, held in various manuscript collections dating from the Middle Ages contains a number of versions of the grammatical works of Donatus and more than 200 commentaries, most of them anonymous, on various aspects of the Donatus corpus. The purpose of these notes is to draw attention to these commentaries dating from the period 11th - 15th centuries and t…
A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts
Quaestiones supra Prisciano minori . Gentile da Cingoli , Romana Martorelli Vico
Medieval Priscian commentaries: Introduction and bibliography
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The Byzantine Grammarians: Their place in history . By R. H. Robins
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