The contributions contained in this volume offer a multidisciplinary approach into the history
of the parts of speech and their role in building phrases and sentences. They fulfill a current
interest for syntactic problems for combining recent linguistic theories with the long
tradition of the Classical studies. The studies cover a chronological range reaching from
Aristotle to Priscian and deal with concepts like mi and óGamma or the two Aristotelian
expressions mi ni and s mimi ni as well as d beta s and mi beta s in Apollonius Dyscolos and
the corresponding Latin term transitio and finally the Latin pronouns qui or quis. Through the
metalinguistic approach the authors tackle syntactic structures like dependency or government
syntactic features or properties such as transitivity or subject and predicate or the
development of the syntactic role of pronouns in introducing relative sentences. Furthermore
in providing testimonies of the historical existence of the controversy anomaly-analogy the
history of this quarrel is drawn from the Alexandrinian tradition to the Latin one with
emphasis on the studium grammaticae as a development of an independent field of study.
