Definición de la conjunción en la gramática grecolatina antigua, medieval y renacentista

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse the definition of conjunction in the grammatical treatises of old greco-latin, medieval and renaissance authors (61 grammarians in all), from the greek stoics (3rd c. b.C.) to the last latin grammarians of the Renaissance (17th c). The research reveals two main ideas: on one hand, some grammarians, following Dionysius Thrax and Donatas, defend that conjunction joins "sentences", while others, following Apollonius Dyscolus and Priscian, think that it joins "words"; on the other hand, whereas the grammarians from the greco-latin Antiquity assign to conjunction a double function, thas is, "connecting" and "ordering", Petrus Helias, The Modistae and the majority of the Renaissance end up by assigning conjunction an exclusive "connective" function.