History of Linguistics Part 1 (edited)
Across
- 1. Meaning-based grammars of late Latin grammarians
- 3. According to Plato, the ideal, non-physical essences of all things are called .... (plural form)
- 5. a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly an error in morphology
- 7. The most widely studied aspect of grammar in Antiquity
- 11. "noun" in ancient Greek
- 13. An earlier pharaoh discovered the original language of humanity by secluding two newborn children among mutes until they uttered their first word, which presumably would be in the tongue of our earliest ancestors: it was ".....", the Phrygian word for “bread”.
- 15. Longer grammar by Donatus
- 16. The smallest element in linguistic description in the Late Latin Grammars
- 18. ".... of speech" - figures and tropes; rhetorical devices used in speech
- 19. A Greek philosopher who theorized on ethics, politics, logic, rhetoric, and physics
- 20. (Greek word) unit of meaning, a meaningful utterance, a word or sentence as a semantic unit
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- 2. Priscian's extensive grammar that was widely used in the Middle Ages
- 4. A classical Roman grammarian who pioneered the studies in morphology
- 6. The first known grammar of Greek
- 8. A genre of grammar that is form-based
- 9. A Greek philosophical school who studied rhetoric and developed a semiotic theory of speech
- 10. A dialog of Plato
- 12. A stand in one of the major disputes in the Antiquity, the belief that language is arbitrary
- 14. The most outstanding era in Greek intellectual life
- 17. One of the 7 liberal arts
- 20. (Greek word) unit of form, writable sound