语言是一种社会现象,是人类社会最重要的交际工具,是人的思想的直接现实。人们从很早以前就开始了对语言进行研究,可以追溯到古希腊罗马时期,他们对语言研究做出了巨大的贡献,为以后的语言学研究奠下了基础,现代语言学就受到了古希腊罗马时期语言研究的影响。古希腊罗马时期的语言研究对现代语言学的“本质论”与“约定论”问题、词类、修辞学、语法范畴等方面产生了深远的影响,并且促进了现代语言学的不断向前发展。 Language is a social phenomenon, the most important communicative tool in human society and a direct reality of human thought. Since a long time ago, people began to study the language, which dates back to the period of ancient Greece and Rome. They made great contributions to language studies and laid the foundation for future linguistic studies. Modern linguistics has been influenced by ancient The Influence of Language Studies in Greek and Roman Periods. The study of language in the ancient Greek-Roman period had a far-reaching impact on modern linguistics such as “theory of essence” and “convention theory”, part of speech, rhetoric, grammatical category, etc., and promoted the continuous development of modern linguistics moving forward.