Summa Grammatica (John of Dacia)

The Summa Grammatica (Latin for Overview of Grammar; c. AD 1280) or Speculative Grammar (Grammatica Speculativa) 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.

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

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.