This is a companion volume to Dr Padley's monograph, Grammatical Theory in Western Europe 1500 1700: the Latin tradition (CUP 1976). This volume deals with the early grammar of the five main European languages - English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - and is the first to treat West European vernacular grammatical theory as a whole. Dr Padley traces the links and the tensions between this vernacular work and the underlying Latin tradition and...
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