Born in Poitiers, he became a pupil of Thierry of Chartres at Paris in the 1130s, also teaching grammar and rhetoric in his school.
He contributed to the theory of substance and influenced Roger Bacon's Overview of Grammar.
In linguistics, he is regarded as having contributed ideas key to the development of grammatical categories such as parts of speech.
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