History of linguistics

aspect of history

dialogue by Plato

text composed in a reconstructed version of the Proto-Indo-European language, published by August Schleicher in 1868

early-20th-century development in Western philosophy

thumb|upright=1.25|The opening pages of Yaska's Nirukta Vedanga text (Sanskrit, Devanagari script)

essay by Dante Alighieri

2nd century Chinese character dictionary

German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (1815-1904)

Turkish nationalist pseudoscientific theory

Tolkāppiyam, also romanised as Tholkaappiyam ( , lit. "ancient poem"), is the oldest extant Tamil grammar text and the oldest extant long work of Tamil literature. The surviving manuscripts of the Tolkappiyam consists of three books (), each with nine chapters (), with a cumulative total of 1,610 (483+463+664) sutras in the meter. It is a comprehensive text on grammar, and includes sutras on orthography, phonology, etymology, morphology, semantics, prosody, sentence structure and the significance of context in language. Mayyon as (Vishnu), Seyyon as (Murugan), Vendhan as (Indra), Varuna as (V

thumb|upright=1.25|A page from the Yajnavalkya Shiksha manuscript (Sanskrit, Devanagari). This text is also called Vajasaneyi Shiksha and Traisvarya Lakshana.

study published in 1854 on African languages

Treatise on Old Norse phonology

French orientalist (1844–1908)

1741 essay by Gottfried Hensel

Early Irish codex

aspect of history

treatise on Greek grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax, who wrote in the 2nd century BCE; the first work on grammar in Greek

The Modistae (Latin for Modists), also known as the speculative grammarians, were the members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as Modism or speculative grammar, active in northern France, Germany, England, and Denmark in the 13th and 14th centuries. Their influence was felt much less in the southern part of Europe, where the somewhat opposing tradition of the so-called "pedagogical grammar" never lost its preponderance.

book by Noam Chomsky

thumb|upright=1.4|Dasatayi Pratisakhya of Saunakacharya, related to the Rigveda (Schoyen Collection Norway).

thumb|right|A Stanza from Kavirajamarga which praises the people for their literary skills Kavirajamarga () (850 C.E.) is the earliest available work on rhetoric, poetics and grammar in the Kannada language. It was inspired by or written in part by the famous Rashtrakuta King Amoghavarsha I, and some historians claim it is based partly on the Sanskrit text Kavyadarsha. Some historians believe Kavirajamarga may have been co-authored by a poet in the king's court, the Kannada language theorist Sri-vijaya.

history of the IPA phonetic representation system