...port royal grammar?

Answer by Môni
Submitted on 3/25/2007
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"Port-Royal Grammar" was a universal grammar book written by the French Claude Lancelot (1616-1695), who was a language instructor at Port-Royal, and Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694). Antoine Arnauld was born in Paris and obtained his PhD in theology. He was a follower of Saint Augustine and was expelled from Sorbonne because of his ideas based on Jansen's. He spent some time living in the monastery "Port-Royal des Champs", hiding from his persecutors. In 1660 he published the Port-Royal grammar, influenced by Decartes' ideas from "Regulae." In his opinion, mental processes and grammar were the same thing. And as, according to him, all the mental processes are the same, he concluded that grammar should be universal.

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Question by khadija
Submitted on 12/19/2003
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what is the port royal grammar?

Answer by anonymous
Submitted on 5/14/2005
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The Port-Royal Grammar was published in 1660 by Antoine Arnauld. It argued that mental processes and grammar were basically the same thing. It has had a great influence on the modern study of linguistics.

Answer by Baiba
Submitted on 1/13/2006
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Port Royal Grammar is a universal and rational grammar written by Antoine Arnauld and Claud Lancelot in the monastery of Port Royal, France, in 1660. It has some French examples in it, and is partly a study of French language, but on the whole it is about the structure of any language. It is the base of most of the grammars of certain languages written afterwards, up to nowadays.

Answer by des kartes
Submitted on 4/12/2006
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study of how our mind organizes our thoughts and ideas.

Answer by nphu
Submitted on 7/19/2006
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Port Royal was grammar that was made by Claude Lancelot

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