(1984) Histoire Épistémologie Langage 6 (1).
From Medieval Latin to the Piurality of Languages at the Turn ofthe Renaissance The transformation, between 1400 and 1600, of the relationship between logic and grammar in the major European languages is explained by the transformation of the object-Ianguage of this relationship on the one hand, and of its status on the other. In the Middle Ages, logic and grammar operated on an impoverished Latin which, while it held a monopoly over writing, did not have any reaI speakers, but constituted a second language, semi-artificiaI in character, comfortable in the stability of its synchrony and of its own formaI linguistic knowledge. With the humanistic rupture, the vemacular made a debut. As they acceded to writing, slowly constituting their own corpus of textual references and defming their own ways of a proper fonnal linguistic knowledge, these actually-lïving, natural, and hence changing languages became the raw materiaI for a new grammatical and logical analysis conscious of the diversity and non-systematicism of use.
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Giard, L. (1984). Du latin médiéval au pluriel des langues, le tournant de la Renaissance. Histoire Épistémologie Langage 6 (1), pp. 35-55.
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