Middle Ages and renaissance; linguistic

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What was a fundational aspect of Mediaeval scolarship ?
It was grammar
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The seven liberal arts
scientific arts : music, arithmetic, geometry & astronomy
arts of the humanities : grammar,
logic and rhetoric
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What changed in linguistic scholarship ?
Descriptive to pedagogical (explaining in Paris)
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A long lasting question
Do all languages have the same basic structure? Or do languages differ
fundamentally, thereby affecting the way their speakers perceive the world?
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What change due to contact with new languages in the Renaissance ?
Many aspect of what we thougt knew of language were called in question
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What were the two new languages studied in linguistic ?
Hebrew and Arabic
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And three new languages ?
Vernacular languages, native languages in America and Asian languages (chinese and indigenous linguistic traditions)
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Name two new charasteristic of linguistics in the Renaissance
Empirism : Language is derived from sensorial experience with the world (idea of tabula rasa)

Rationalism : Language is derived, in part, from innate concepts in the human mind
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Conclusion
From descriptive to pedagogical, inrichment due to colonialism, and theorotical new terms (+debates)
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