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Dept. of English

Govt. College Civil Lines Multan

Prof. Fakhar Alam

Dept. of English

Govt. College Civil Lines Multan

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    Paper 6        Linguistics


    History of Linguistics

    Socrates (Greece)


    Plato (Greece)

    Stoics (Greece)

    Panini (India): Astadhyayi ‘eight books’.

    Aristotle(Greece)

    Varro (Rome)

    Donatus (Rome)

    Boethius (Dark Ages)

    Priscian (Rome)

    Isidore of Seville (St. Isidorus)

    Sibawaih (Persian grammarian of Arabic)

    Ælfric the Grammarian [England]

    Robert Grosseteste [England]

    The First Grammatical Treatise [Iceland]

    Roger Bacon [England]

    Thomas Aquinas [Italy]

    Dante Alighieri [Italy]

    Duns Scotus

    Thomas of Erfurt [Germany]

    Erasmus [Holland]

    Petrus Ramus [France]

    Joseph Justus Scaliger [France]

    Franciscus Sanctius [Spain]

    Francis Bacon [England]

    René Descartes [France]

    John Locke [Scotland]

    Benedictus Spinoza [Holland]

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz [Germany]

    Port Royal Grammar [France]

    George Berkeley [Ireland]

    David Hume [Scotland]

    Sir William Jones (1746-1794) [England]

    August Schlegel (1767-1845) [Germany]

    Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) [Germany]

    Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) [Germany]

    Jakob Grimm (1785-1863) [Germany]

    Rasmus Rask (1787-1832) [Denmark]

    Franz Bopp (1791-1867) [Germany]

    August Pott (1802-1887) [Germany]

    August Schleicher (1821-1868) [Germany]

    August Leskien (1840-1916) [Germany]

    Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927) [Germany]

    Johannes Schmidt (1843-1901) [Germany]

    Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929) [Russia]

    Hermann Paul (1846-1921) [Germany]

    Karl Verner (1846-1896) [Denmark]

    Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) [Germany]

    Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) [Germany]

    Eduard Sievers (1850-1932) [Germany]

    Nikolai Kruszewski (1851-1887) [Poland]

    Ferdinand de Saussure (Structuralism) [Switzerland]

    Leonard Bloomfield (Structuralism) [United States]

    Roman Jakobson (Generative Grammar) [Russia/United States]

    Noam Chomsky (Generative Grammar ) [United States]

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