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This volume presents the Latin text critically established by Heinrich Roos S.J. and Jan Pinborg (Copenhagen 1969) together with an English translation on opposite pages. This is prefaced by an introductory article which places Boethius the Dane’s Modistic grammar into historical perspective. A detailed Index of Technical Terms rounds off the volume.

Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is of course necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative possibilities. In addition the theory can perhaps suggest some hints as to the direction experimental studies might take at least to the extent that it suggest various kinds of relation among syntactic or phonological structures. But the theory alone cannot determine the nature of such relations in the cognitive or processing system of the language user. The first section of this volume addresses several of the key theoretical controversies in linguistics and attempts to specify the kinds of experimental evidence which might contribute to their ultimate resolution. The papers in the second section concern the collection of that evidence and its interpretation.

Integrale Linguistik honour the life and work of Helmut Gipper. Part I covers the History of Linguistics (Hennig Brinkmann Eugenio Coseriu Hartwig Franke & Kristina Franke Johannes Lohmann Gerold Ungeheur); Part II Theory of Linguistics (Karl-Otto Apel Edeltraud Bülow Shirô Hattori Ladislaus Hojsak Alfred Hoppe Werner Ingendahl H. Joachim Neuhaus Guram Ramischwili Adam Schaff Maximilian Scherner Hans Schwarz); Part III Speech Analysis (Werner Abraham Hartmut Beckers Bernhard Engelen Horst Geckeler Johann Knobloch Ekkehart Malotki Peter Schmitter Karl Schneider Rudolf Schützeichel Andrea Stahlschmidt); Part IV Interdisciplinary Aspects of Linguistic Research (Hugo Dyserinck Günter Heintz Anton Leischner Beate Marquardt Thomas A. Sebeok Leo Weisgerber Gerd Wolandt). The volume ends with a complete bibliography of writings of Helmut Gipper. The language of this volume is German.

From the author’s preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax thus is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics and having heard that my major interest was syntax someone was able perhaps also facetiously to respond: 'Does it exist?' Most of the papers collected here originated in those days and previously appeared in various linguistic journals and anthologies. The reader may note that the topics dealt with in these papers all have their roots in syntax but in most cases relate to its boundary areas. The boundary areas are not restricted to semantics but the above analogy of the doughnut might still apply to what syntax is to those boundary areas. Hence the title of the book."

Over the past few years interest and research in experimental linguistics has shifted more toward centre stage perhaps because of the growing recognition that purely theoretical formulations and speculations about language must necessarily be tested against the empirical facts of language knowledge use and acquisition. To highlight some aspects of empirical linguistics a conference was organized in 1978 at University of Alberta at which six prominent scholars were invited to present substantial contributions. These papers are included in this volume together with an epilogue summing up and discussing the recurrent themes of the conference and a general bibliography.

The volume attempts to deal with equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and their remote structure. In this unique monograph Mohamed Sami Anwar oes to show that equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic are derived from underlying sentences that have transitive or intransitive verbs and that the verb be in its overt form is only a tense marker. The chapter following the introduction deals with the equational sentences functioning as conveyers of stative ideas. The third chapter deals with the verb be in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and how it functions only as a tense marker. The fourth chapter is an analysis of determination as regards the subject and why in some cases the predicate at the surface structure has to occur before the subject. The final chapter deals with the predicate slot and its types of fillers and analyzes also the remote structure of the equational sentences to interpret the phenomenon of the presence and absence of agreement in number and gender between the subject and the predicate.

The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract morphological forms. One of the basic premises of this book is that the French superficial phonetic forms are not derived from the Latin superficial phonetic forms but that both are derived from abstract etymological forms.

In this book the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical but a normative science comparable to logic and philosophy characterized by the use of the method of explication.

This book provides a critical edition translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the British Museum catalogue ascribes the incunabulum to Albertus Magnus the authorship is debated.The format of the twenty-one questions of this text follows the standard pattern of the time: after stating the question the author cites as argumenta opinions with which he does not agree gives his own answer and then refutes the argumenta.

For the author of these questions three issues are paramount: the scientific status of grammar the problem of universals and the 'structure of the device' through which language was generated.

The writings of Siger of Courtrai were first edited by Gaston Wallerand in 1913. This new edition on the basis of Wallerand's editio prima with additions critical notes and an introduction by Jan Pinborg reprints the two works from that edition that have an immediate relevance for the study of medieval grammar i.e. the Summa modorum significandi and the Sophismata. To this have been added some critical notes correcting the text of Wallerand where his readings were faulty and supplying references of the sources. Finally three more Sophismata which have recently been recovered are here edited for the first time.

The Summa is a compendium which closely follows Priscian’s Institutiones but puts the doctrinal elements from Priscian into the frame of reference characteristic of Modistic literature. The importance of Siger’s Sophismata in the context of this volume is that they offer a more thorough discussion of the fundamental logico-epistemological tenets presupposed in his linguistic theory.