Location of sources
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Further reading
I. APPLIED LINGUISTICS
1. Problems of Language-Teaching: A discussion among Hartlib's friends
2. Joseph Webbe: Some seventeenth-century views on language-teaching and the nature of meaning
3. John Brinsley: 17th-century pioneer in applied linguistics
4. Early Seventeenth-Century Punctuation as a Guide to Sentence-Structure
II. GRAMMATICAL THEORY
5. Pre-Cartesian Linguistics (On the occasion of Noam Chomsky's “Cartesian Linguistics”)
6. James Shirley and Some Problems of 17th-Century Grammar
7. ‘Philosophical’ Grammar in John Wilkins's “Essay”
III. UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
8. Language-Planning in Seventeenth-Century England; its context and aims
9. The evolution of Dalgarno's “Ars signorum” (1661)
10. Cave Beck: A seventeenth-century Ipswich schoolmaster and his “Universal Character”
11. John Wilkins' “Essay” (1668): Critics and continuators
Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1957-1987
Index of Authors
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