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The birth of the adjective class as a problem of translation
2015
Open Linguistics
AbstractThis paper seeks to analyze the translation of grammatical terminology. One of the main differences between the Greek-Latin parts of speech theory and that of traditional later European linguistics (from Port Royal onwards) lies in the existence of the adjective as an independent word class. The paper examines the definitions of the categories of noun, verb and epithet/adjective from Dionysius Thrax through the 17th century, with the aim of showing that the birth of the adjective as an
doi:10.1515/opli-2015-0007
fatcat:2jtaoghy6zb6vgdsjhypa5up4q