In principio erat verbum (and not the noun)

I've been reading about Sigier de Courtrai, a lesser known grammarian belonging to the group of 13th and 14th-century Northern European speculative grammarians known as Modistae. Like the rest of the Modists, Sigier reflected on the relationship between mind and reality, and how language, or the 'modes of signifying' opens the latter to the former. Adop…