Grammar’s Birth
Or: An Overview of the Beginnings of Linguistic Science in Greece.—The volume is part of the series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Here’s the publisher’s page. And here my preprint. (I haven’t yet received any soft- or hardcopy.)
Update 2010-10-06: After inspection of the published version, I must unfortunately say that I cannot recommend using it for more than citation purposes. Indeed, I’d almost forgotten the proofs. Some clever mind at Blackwell’s had made a great number of completely unnecessary changes to the submitted text—the aim being to help the reader, I presume. I duly pointed out all the mistakes and infelicities introduced, of course. What I now just discovered is that in many cases my remarks have not been taken into account. A few examples: on p. 504, l. 1, the reference to chapter 7 is obviously out of place; in the sections on Chrysippus and Apollonius, my definitions were mostly (though not on p. 509) incorporated into the body of the text; the grounds on which single and double quotation marks are distinguished are a mystery to me; my groupings of paragraphs were in general ignored (again, a pleasant exception on p. 510); sometimes two paragraphs were flown into one; and so on. So dear prospective reader, please use and peruse what I’d like to call the original version.
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