Summa Grammatica (John of Dacia)

The Summa Grammatica (Latin for Overview of Grammar; c. AD 1280) or Speculative Grammar (Grammatica Speculativa)[1] was a work by the medieval Modist philosopher John of Dacia.

John calls grammar the "idiom of philosophers" and analyzes the modes using Aristotle's Metaphysics.[1][2]

See also
  • Summa Grammatica, the more famous work by Roger Bacon
  • Grammatica Speculativa, the more famous work by Thomas of Erfurt
  • Modistae, the philosophical school represented by the work

References

Citations
  1. Murphy (1974), p. 155.
  2. Aristotle, Meta., I.3.

Bibliography
  • Murphy, James J. (1974), Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from St. Augustine to the Renaissance, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-04406-1.


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