ages. Only recently has the theme again received comparable attention in transformational grammar and the analytic school of linguistic philosophy under the influence of Geach. In this work, philosophers of language consider the question of how far these expressions can be seen as colloquial counterparts of the bound variables known from predicate logic. This work shows that scholastic theories of suppositio relativorum underwent a development in the 14th century and that the theories which gradually emerged anticipated the insights of recent linguistic philosophy. This thesis is illustrated by editions of selected texts of the logicians of the new continental universities of Vienna and Prague at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries and makes it clear that the often asserted decline of scholasticism had not yet set in, in the period after Ockham and Buridan. The book should be of interest to all those interested in intellectual history, the history of learning in the Middle Ages, the history of the theory of language and of logic, in modern theory of language and logic, logicians and linguists.

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