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Preface 1. Getting ready to study the history of linguistics 2. Greek philosophy and the origins of western linguistics 3. Towards a discipline of grammar: the transition from philosophy 4. From literacy to grammar: describing language structure in the ancient world 5. Christianity and language 6. The early Middle Ages 7. The Carolingian Renaissance 8. Scholasticism: linking language and reality 9. Medieval vernacular grammars 10. The Renaissance: discovery of the outer world 11. And what happened next? Linguistics since 1600 - in brief 12. Becoming a historian of linguistics.
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